Our last post featured the cubs in Wild Enclosure #2, so in the spirit of fairness, this time we’ll focus on the group in Wild Enclosure #3. You may recall that while Beignet Bear was recuperating from her surgery her enclosure mates, the Beary Triplets, became fixated on what has come to be known as the Forbidden Tree. They were fascinated and frustrated by the plastic sleeve around the tree that prevents them from climbing it. They haven’t given up, though, as today’s post will show.

Of course we know that it is highly unlikely that the cubs have these ideas in mind (that is way too much anthropomorphism) but it surely seems as though that could be the case as we review the sequence of photos. It’s fun to speculate, at least, and there is no denying that bears, including cubs, are very smart and clever animals.