Little Bit’s Release – Part 4 – Wild and Free!
As we reported in “Little Bit’s Release -Part 3,” Little Bit spent time in a cooled building near Park Headquarters, to await the time for her actual release into her…
As we reported in “Little Bit’s Release -Part 3,” Little Bit spent time in a cooled building near Park Headquarters, to await the time for her actual release into her…
Back to the story of Little Bit and her journey to freedom in the wild. The next step in the release process was to load her into the cage on…
ABR is proud to announce that we have hired a new, fulltime curator, Coy Blair! Blair graduated Magna Cum Laude from Maryville College in 2009 with a degree in Biology.…
The workup process is somewhat involved, because the wildlife officers (in this case, NPS officers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) want to be absolutely sure that the bear (in…
As promised, here is the first of our posts on the release of Little Bit Bear, which took place on June 28th, six weeks after she arrived, tiny and injured. …
As we showed you in our last post, Little Bit has healed well and looks really good. Her release date was set for June 28th, and we will show you…
Little Bit was admitted to ABR by wildlife officers from The Great Smoky Mountains National Park on May 17 with a serious wound on her snout. You can read about her…
Bump, bump, bumpity bump…it was a rough ride deep into the National Park. It was hot, and between bumps Rose and I were trying our best to wake up. [Yawn!]…
It was a very hot day so, after they put me through all the ‘hoops’ and turned to do the same for Rose, I was “put on ice” for the…
Now some of this is going to be downright embarrassing. They unceremoniously lifted me up to be weighed and poked and prodded from stem to stern — why, they even gave me a dental exam! But taking my temperature, well, that had to be the absolute worst. Find out more…in Part II of the release process