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Waiting and Working as Excitement Grows - UPDATE June 5, 2016
05 June 2016
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Bill and Randy are on their way to Kentucky to bring our new ambassador bear to her new home. The new bear will ride in a travel cage that is 47 inches long, 30 inches wide, and 32 inches tall. NABC Crew Preparing
NABC crew preparing the pen

It will comfortably hold our new yearling bear who weighed 97 pounds at her health check yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Bear Center staff is working to have a nice clean place for the new bear to settle down for a few days and get to know her new caretakers. Four of the faces are new interns who you may meet on visits to the Bear Center. From left to right, the workers are Kara, Haley, Eva (from England), Bear Curator Sharon Herrell, and Jacqueline. The new bear?s pen will be right next to Lucky and Holly?s bunker den where Holly got to know Lucky through the hole and through the fence. Lucky and Holly will likely come and meet her and get to know her through the fence.
We?re anxious to get to know her, too. So is Cindy Fitzgerald, who wrote the following: ?I am looking forward to meeting this little dark faced beauty. Now we have two little girls to love. Her transition into her new home will be well supported by Sharon and NABC staff. I am hoping that Ted will take an interest in her. And that they will enjoy one another's company. Welcome little one for you are a blessing not a replacement. See you soon.?
Lily Fans are thinking of names that might be better than ?new bear.? She has a dark face, so a name that Bear Center visitors would readily connect to her might be appropriate. Reflecting her blackness are: Cinder (Cindy), Pepper (Peppy), Melanie (means dark), Kerry (Irish / black), Ebony, and Midnight (Middy). Names that might reflect her personality, if they fit, could be: Rose ( Rosie, Flower for the month of June), Julie (Youthful, beautiful, vivacious), Sadie (Princess), Chloe (blossoming). A favorite will emerge one of these days.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center