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Tasha, Kimani, Samantha, Cubs - UPDATE August 26, 2016
26 August 2016
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Tasha was out from about 8:40 AM to 1:40 PM?mostly at or near her day bed near trees and nearly out of sight. The viewing area lacks the safety of trees. Tasha
Tasha
In her last 10-15 minutes of being out, Holly stirred action. She approached. Tasha loped ahead toward her pen with Holly loping behind, not trying to catch up. At her pen, Tasha noticed that Holly was no longer behind her. She stayed outside. She went back the Kimani's cub
Kimani's cub
way she?d come. Then she came running into her pen and onto the roof of her shelter with a tree handy by the roof. Ted was making friendly sounds. Holly was patrolling outside Tasha?s pen with the door closed by staff. Sometimes Tasha doesn?t want to play.
At the WRI, Kimani and Samantha?s families mingled in the woods with the two mothers grunting to their cubs as if concerned. Another bear startled them. All 6 cubs leaped up two trees, cubs from each litter up each tree. The pictures show them posing on the tree trunks. All are looking roly-poly as their guard hairs grow in length and stand ever more straight out as their underfur grows in.
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Samantha and Kimani's cubs
In Montana, legendary bear research pioneer John Craighead turned 100 on August 14. He and his twin brother Frank did the early ground-breaking grizzly bear research in Yellowstone National Park until 1971. 20160826 JohnCraighead
John Craighead
That?s when the park made a policy change that cost a lot of bears their lives. The Craighead brothers spoke out and were banned from further research in the park. They did so much good on so many fronts in their lifetimes. Frank died at 85. John is shown at age 92. They were always good to me.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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