Juliet - January 20, 2014At 10:21 AM, Juliet roused, shook a lot as if bedding was in her ears, and may have urinated when she stood quietly for a couple minutes with her hind feet outside the edge of the bed. She has been eating snow the last couple days, and hibernation produced water from fat break-down. Then, breaking the routine of the last couple days, she snuggled down without eating snow.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNz1Uk8RXtQ
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/117233548
You might be wondering if she ate snow at some other time of day. That’s one of the reasons the team is going to make all the archives available day by day starting on the 23rd. There are some days with outages, but we’ll make available all we have.
In tonight’s 1-minute flashback to September 5, 2007, June and Lily are at what looks like a bedding site and panting a little on this 68°F day. June is sniffing the air and listening to an approaching airplane. Lily is playing with a piece of birch bark, depending on mom for surveillance. Finally, Lily wonders what the motor sound is but is not concerned. Motor vehicles and airplanes are common. June lifts her head to look upward, probably to follow the moving plane as it passes over. Lily looks, listens, and sniffs but doesn’t look up. http://youtu.be/B1VCgj81r_4.
Tomorrow at 1 PM, Scott and I will be talking on the PTZ cam, taking advantage of these relatively warm days in the 20’s. Always fun with Scott.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center.