Cubby Birthday!
As you know if you have been following ABR, we have designated January 22 as the birthday of all cubs and yearlings who come to ABR for care. The date…
Photos of and special feature stories about ABR bears, including bears
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Antics of Thistle and Taco Bear
The bear cubs at ABR play rough! They are very hard on the enclosures and the enrichment items that the curators provide to keep them busy and occupied during their…
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…