Lily and Hope Traveling
July 15, 2010 – 5:43 PM CDT
Lily is leading Hope into areas Hope hasn’t seen yet. Lily is doing her usual wide travels, and Hope sticking with her. While radio-tracking Lily and Hope to change Lily’s GPS unit, Sue ran into yearling female Jewel (at left), Lily’s half-sister from June’s last litter. The last time we saw Jewel, she looked pretty ratty. We don’t mean to disparage the appearance of rats and mean that only in the sense of having areas of thin fur. Jewel was shedding her winter fur then. Now she has a beautiful, shiny new summer coat and is a handsome bear. The only remnants of the old coat are some long hairs down her spine. Those are the last hairs to be shed, giving her a Mohawk look as if her hackles are raised, which bears don’t do.
We are hearing your suggestions for more ways to vote money for the North American Bear Center and Wildlife Research Institute.
On July 1, we tried to enter the Pepsi Refresh Everything competition. They opened for entries at 12:01 AM Eastern Time and filled their quota of a thousand entries by the time we tried to enter at 12:03 AM ET. We’ll try again on August 1 at 12:01 ET.
We have tried to join the American Express Take Part competition (http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote), but after submitting the Bear Center twice now at the button “Suggest a charity,” it hasn’t shown up on their list of entries. We don’t know what we are doing wrong.
Thank you for all you are doing.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center