Cub on a walkabout - February 9, 2014The cubs were noisy in this evening's highlight video. Juliet seemed tired. A little after 10 PM (in the second half of this 4½-minute video) a cub becomes separated from the family and screams continuously. Juliet is slow to respond, she has heard screaming off and on all evening. Then she realizes the cub is not next to her. It is lost, eyes not open yet, and moving away from her. She sits up and gently uses her chin and paw to snuggle the cub with the others. She tucks her head under her and breaths warmth onto them as they nurse. Temperature was somewhere between 13 above and 20 below zero F.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCylNeuCXyc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/119132344
Archives: http://www.bearstudy.org/website/research/2014-juliet-archives.html
At the Bear Center, the Northwoods Ecology Hall Live Cam showed that Peter and Ryan got the pond in place complete with a stream of “water” leaking into it from the beaver dam. Peter and Ryan are not only good, they enjoy doing it, including placing taxidermy pieces that Lily Fans donated.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center