April Bear and Her New Ball
As you know, the curators usually provide a stuffed toy companion to tiny cubs,, but since April Bear is a yearling, they did not give one to her. That was…
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Watching April Bear
The cams that ABR installed thanks to a grant from Lush Cosmetics allow the curators to monitor the activities of our injured yearling, April Bear. As a bonus, we get…
April Bear in Evening
Our injured yearling, #267 (April Bear) has adjusted well to her situation at ABR. The curators report that she has finished her meds and they are leaving the door to…
April Bear – Making Progress
The injured yearling bear, nicknamed April, has been at ABR for almost a week now, and is making progress toward recovery. She has demonstrated a preference for being outside in…
April Bear in the Recovery Center
Our first bear of 2018, nicknamed April, was hit by a car on the spur road through the park and suffered broken ribs. The vets at the UT College of…
Here’s April Bear!
A few days ago we posted that ABR received the first bear for 2018, and that we’d post a photo as soon as we could. Here is the female yearling,…
The Best Bear Den Ever
ABR Head Curator Coy Blair has been hiking into the back country to retrieve dropped collars. He will tell you that sometimes it is a real challenge, but recently he…
Where Are the Bears?
It’s January. Bears in the Smokies and throughout the country are in dens. Mother bears will soon give birth to the cubs of 2018. Bear cubs are born in the…
The ABR Year in Review – Cubs
Our last post reviewed the ABR lives of our yearlings, Summitt and Dani Bear. This post will focus on the three cubs – Otto, Rollo and Apollo Bear. Each of…
The ABR Year in Review
We are going to review the yearlings and cubs that ABR cared for during 2017. In today’s post we show the two yearlings when they arrived and how they looked…