Playing Catch-up
If you are a regular follower of this blog, you probably have noticed that it’s been a few days since our last post – please accept our apologies. Today we’ll…
Photos of and special feature stories about ABR bears, including bears
that TWRA and ABR have knowledge of from previous rescues
A Fort for Beignet
Our very clever head curator, Coy, built a little fort for Beignet Bear in the Hartley House. He’s been working overtime, dreaming up enrichment ideas and challenges to keep her…
A Bear and a Box
The bear is Beignet, and the box is something the curators added to her room in the Hartley House, where she is residing while she recuperates from the surgery to…
Cubs in Motion
Those new security cameras in the enclosures allow us to see into the lives of our cubs in ways we never could before. Today we have videos of all ten…
Cubs Being Cubs
The ten cubs at ABR are all doing what cubs do – and at this time of year they are doing a lot of foraging and eating. Here’s a recap…
All 10 Cubs
In today’s post we’ll show all of the cubs (almost – one of the cubs in Wild Enclosure #2 was hiding somewhere and couldn’t be seen). We think you’ll agree…
Beignet Moves House
Beignet Bear has been recuperating from her surgery to repair her broken leg . She has been in the Red Roof Recovery Center since the surgery at UT. Although she…
Persistent Triplets
Those Beary Triplets are an interesting little family. We know about their wrestling that is pretty much non-stop. Now we see their persistence in trying to climb one of the…
Chomping Cubs
It seems that hyperphagia has kicked in, judging by the amount of time our cubs are spending in the search for food and the eating thereof. They are devoting more…
A New Word for Cubs
We’ve learned a new word to describe our chubbifying cubs – “chonky.” It even sounds like it means chubby, portly, just plain fat. So we’ll add it to our list…