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…
Facebook Live Video with Curator Tori
We haven’t posted a Facebook Live recently, so now that we have a new bear (#361- Heather) we thought it was a good time to share this one, which starts…
Another Yearling Bear!
On Sunday, August 31st, vacationers in Gatlinburg saw an injured, young bear. They reported it to ABR and to TWRA, and after checking for the most likely area for a…
Eating While Standing
Humans do it all the time – grab a sandwich or snack and eat it while standing at the lunch counter or in the food court. But to see bear…
Cubs of Various Sizes
Although all of the ABR cubs are the same age (6 months old) there is a variety of sizes among them. For example, the triplets in Wild Enclosure #1, Highland,…