Lynx in Northwoods Ecology HallLinda Gibson made it easy to access the archives for Juliet’s Den Cam. Just go to www.bearstudy.org, look for the research tab, hover over it and a dropdown menu appears. Click on Juliet’s Den Cam 2014. (or bookmark http://www.bearstudy.org/website/research/2014-juliet-archives.html) Linda arranged it beautifully. The right arrow or left arrow allows you to scan through the archives for the entire 24-hour period each day unless there were down periods with no archives. When you click on an segment, it appears in the larger screen below and begins playing when you click the arrow.
There will be no archives for January 24 and 25. We were having problems then and feel lucky we have the archives for the 23rd with the births. Each day's archives will be made available when the update posts.
Maureen O'Brien - artistFrom these archives, Linda is making daily highlight videos. She at first hesitated to put in the defecating scene that occurs at the time stamp of 8:30:39. She finally decided it was ground-breaking biology that a bear that is not supposed to urinate or defecate during the denning period would defecate when the time of delivery was approaching, and Juliet did it directly in front of the Den Cam for a good photographic record.
We heard the first unmistakable cub sound at 9:17:14 but heard Juliet licking a cub shortly before that. These archives are so rich in information. Note: Some of the timestamps from last night's update are off a little. The mistakes that were found have been corrected in the update text.
Two highlight videos for this day are:
Part One
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNTjCLhee0E
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/117647750
Part Two
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ousWLMIGTo
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/117648441
At the Bear Center, Scott moved the stationary camera into the Northwoods Ecology Hall so you and we could see how things are coming along moment by moment. Today, Maureen O’Brien continued painting her background mural and the crew put the lynx in place and added snow and icicles to the rock outcrop.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center