The saplings in Wild Enclosure #4 are in trouble. Beignet and Jessamine are out to get them! And when two yearling bears gang up on a sapling, the poor little tree doesn’t stand a chance.
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We have observed many bear cubs and yearlings play in this way, bending (murdalizing) saplings. At the end of a season, there are very few, if any saplings that have escaped the bears’ destructive tendencies. Luckily, they do recover and grow back, along with others, so we have a never-ending supply for each group of cubs and yearlings to murdalize.