Iris Bear Released!
On August 23rd, nineteen-month-old Iris Bear entered the Acclimation Pen for Wild Enclosure #4 and became the first of the three yearlings to return to her wild home. As we…
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Happy Birthday, Bears!
If you have followed our blog for awhile, you know that every month we celebrate the “birthday” of the bears in our care on the 22nd of the month. ABR…
Bears on a Hot Day
What do the yearlings and cubs so on hot days? We’ve had a lot of hot days recently, and we humans tend to spend a lot of time in air-conditioned…
Sleeping Bears
It’s been hot lately (in the 90s) but the fur-coated bears seem to be oblivious to the heat at night. They choose to sleep near their enclosure mates. The yearlings…
Beary Special Treats
A kind friend of ABR donated some honeycomb for the thirteen bears in residence. Curator Tom fashioned unique personalized containers for each of the bears. The curators and (especially) the…
Cubs in the Morning
Our last post was about the yearlings in the morning, so in today’s post we’ll see how the cubs start their day. The photos show us how chubby and rotund…
Yearlings in the Morning
As we have mentioned before, the curators have been somewhat surprised to see how sociable the three yearlings are. It has always been assumed that because yearlings are dispersed from…
Eating Leaves
Although the ABR curators provide many kinds of delicious and healthy food for the cubs, our cubs also like to find their own treats. We’ve seen them eating insects and…
ABR Bears on Video
When we are able to post a video of our cubs and yearling bears, we are happy to do so. Seeing them in motion really gives a feeling for what…
Cubs in Enclosures #1 and #2
The ABR bear cubs were engaging in different activities – in Wild Enclosure #1 they swam in their pool and foraged for snacks. All ten of the cubs are busy…