Another House Call for Heather Bear
On August 19, Dr. Cushing and his team of vets from the University of Tennessee paid another house call to ABR, to check on the progress of injured yearling Heather…
Chubbifying!
The cubs at ABR are, indeed,chubbifying (getting chonky, if you prefer). In other words, they are eating a LOT and spending many hours in pursuit of chubbiness. Unlike humans, who…
Munching Cubs
As we have seen during the last few days, the ABR bear cubs are showing signs of hyperphagia, the annual feeding frenzy that causes bears of every age to eat…
Mighty Taco Bear
We have a sequence of photos from Wild Enclosure #3 – the home of the “T” cubs. Taco, who was the first one to arrive at ABR in May, was…
Early Hyperphagia?
If you have followed ABR or if you’re familiar with a black bear’s life cycle, you know that every year in late summer through fall they enter a state called…
A Visit From the Vet
Dr. Cushing, a veterinarian from the UT College of Veterinary Medicine, came to visit Heather Bear at the Recovery Center. It has been a week since her rescue, and he…
Doing Very Well
All of the thirteen bears (12 cubs, 1 yearling) at ABR are doing very well. Here are some pictures to prove it. Most of our photos are taken by the…
Sleep. Eat. Repeat
The lives of the ABR bear cubs are pretty much an endless cycle of sleeping, eating, and doing it over again, with playing and/or wrestling thrown in periodically. It is…
Eating, Swimming, and Sleeping
Highland Bear, in Wild Enclosure #1, investigated a vertical den, and as happened when he started to dig, it wasn’t long before the other cubs in his enclosure joined in.…
Oh, Cubs!
There is always something going on in the Wild Enclosures at ABR, and this was no exception. With all the rain recently, the cubs have been spending a lot of…