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Mysteries Solved, Corrections Due - UPDATE June 1, 2016
01 June 2016
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I spoke too soon about RC and Jewel being here. I didn?t personally see RC, and Jewel looks a lot like the bear that was here in the dark a couple nights ago. Ted
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Mike stayed over last night and cleared everything up. The mother with four cubs is Samantha (Braveheart?s 7-year-old daughter). We haven?t seen her for about a year, but it is her. Mike even got good enough looks at the cubs through the windows to say they are two males and two females. But we know how we?ve gotten cubs wrong on that before as they switched places faster than we could keep up with. I suspect he is right but we?ll recheck until we?re totally sure.
I?m still looking for an opportunity to see how Jewel?s wound on her left side has healed.
So we have Samantha with 4 cubs, Jewel with 3, and Sophie with 2. We have yet to see 17-year-old RC to see how many cubs she has. Her last 6 litters have all been 3.
It looks like we?ll have a lot of cubs visiting this summer. A goal for the Bear Courses is to give the best bear experiences possible as participants learn about bears in ways they?ll never forget. No expert will be able to tell them otherwise, because each will have his or her personal experiences.
Bear Curator Sharon Herrell posted a detailed report on the Bear Center bears.
Bear News - June 1, 2016
Memorial weekend moved through quickly. The rain on Saturday and Sunday brought folks to the center in big numbers. We did two Behind The Scene tours every hour both days.
Tuesday, we had our annual visit from Virginia Minnesota?s first grade class. The teachers remain the same but the students are always new. As the population fluctuates, the number of students does too. This year we had 125, last year we had 160 students. So how do we handle this many children? Very carefully and very organized. Their questions, bright faces and innocence of bear knowledge is very precious. One of the children told our intern, "we saw you on the cam". It means a great deal to us to share our experiences with them but to also realize how many watch the cams.
On Friday we put fresh cedar out for the bears. Ted enjoyed the first roll in the cedar for the year. We?ve noticed yesterday that Ted is in need of additional time to relax. He is currently on Deramaxx for arthritis, and if he needs it he will get Tramodol for pain. We are watching him closely. His pads have some on and off swelling. We have talked to Dr. Petersen, she is aware of the swelling and will monitor him.
Holly gave us a look as she was leaving the mound area. She is quite a hoot. She and Lucky played in the cedar trees just to the left of the mound area. Play has been high on Lucky and Holly's "to do list". They have been seen playing together in the pond, on the mound, and in the cub tree. Spontaneous play is always a useful tool for visitors to see. They realize that the bears do not hurt each other and they do not generally vocalize while they are playing; unless Lucky gets too rough with Holly.
Lucky took the opportunity to take a brief nap while his den was being cleaned. At times he has supervised the efforts of the interns and Bear Eds that cleaned for him.
Thank you to all for making our bears, happy bears.
Sharon Herrell, Bear Curator
Thank you Sharon and thank you all for all you do.
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