Birthday Time Again!
As you know, Ken La Valley, the official ABR photographer, stops by the facility each month to take photos of our residents. ABR has designated January 22nd as the “official”…
On a Recent Day. . .
It was raining, so of course the cubs spent the day in the trees. But this being hyperphagia season, they had to come down in between the showers, to get…
Updates on Cubs and Yearling
Curator Janet presented a Facebook Live today and showed videos of all of the bears at ABR. She began with the last to arrive, #345 (Bud) in the Hartley House.…
Another Bear!
This has been a very busy week at ABR, with the arrival of yet another injured bear on October 21st. This is a yearling, the first yearling in our class…
News – Happy and Sad
We’ve often said that the bear rescue business has ups and downs throughout the year. October 19th had both kinds of news. First, TWRA was notified about a dead adult…
Cubs and Other Critters
We have mentioned before that there are a number of other critters, besides the cubs, who inhabit the ABR Wild Enclosures and enjoy partaking of the bounty of food that…
What’s Up, Cubs?
The cub “Frenemies,” Cosmo and Hops, are back on center stage again today. It started when Cosmo Bear took a nice snooze on the resting platform in Wild Enclosure #3.…
Nighttime at ABR
Black bears have excellent night vision, and the enclosure cams at ABR capture the antics of the cubs at all hours. We saw some nighttime shenanigans recently in Wild Enclosure…
A Hole is to Dig (even for bear cubs)
We’ve seen the cubs doing many different things in their enclosures, from swimming, to wrestling, to tree climbing, to playing on the Tire Bridge. Then there was digging, which was…
What a Life!
The cubs at ABR live quite the life, playing, eating, sleeping, eating, sleeping . . .and so on. Today we check in with the cubs in Wild Enclosure #4, and…