Cooling Off, Cubby Style
Cooling off is important if you are a little bear with a black fur coat! Here are a few pictures of recent cubs who enjoyed the Cubby Pool or even…
These stories will tell you a lot about ABR and what we do…and about where the bears come from that find their way to our one-of-a-kind Townsend facility.
These are heart-warming stories, all of them. Please feel free to share them with others!
Flashback to 2023
Since ABR still doesn’t have any 2025 cubs, we will again reach back into the files from previous years. This time we have HRH Rover Bear from the class of…
Video – a Bear Family
This video was submitted by a friend of ABR who filmed the bear family passing through their yard. They spent a little time there (the videographer states that they are…
A Look Back – 2022
Tartan Bear was a yearling who came to ABR in the spring of 2022. Today we have a short but delightful video of him playing with a Swingy Ball, one…
A Special Easter Bear
Easter always makes us remember ABR bear #134, nicknamed Easter Bear for the fact that she was rescued on Easter weekend, back in 2011. She weighed just 3.5 pounds and…
Chester Bear
One day an officer for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park transported bears ‘Chester’ and ‘Camper’ to ABR. Both yearlings were far underweight, weighing 30 pounds and 27 pounds respectively.
Copperfield the ‘Disappearing’ Bear
Copperfield was orphaned when his mother was killed one day in Townsend. He was treed by dogs and spotted by a compassionate man and his wife. The couple watched him…
Bear ‘Hickory’ of Gatlinburg
One October ABR received a call from a local Park ranger. He told us that he was assisting the State of Tennessee in capturing two bear cubs. The cubs were on the edge of Gatlinburg and their mother had not been seen with them for several days.
Bobby Bear, 3-lbs Dripping Wet
Little Bear Bobby was found in a roadside ditch filled with water one dreary March. The TWRA officers who rescued him, having been alerted by passers-by, surmised that his mother had been moving her cubs,
The Story of Ham and Sissy
A mother bear was poached in March. People in the area found the sow’s body and called the TWRA. At the crime scene the investigating officers heard cries coming from a nearby den and, inside, found two tiny, 2-month old cubs!