Lily & Faith in den - Dec 3, 2011Preparations for Lily and Faith’s den cam meant a quick trip to the den today to check their sleeping position. The picture shows them both tucked into one end of the den where rocks overhead create a small ‘room.’ The technology team for Lily and Faith’s den is working away.
For Lucky and Honey’s den cam, we’re hoping the local technicians can get together Monday and get it going. Honey is doing interesting REM sleep and we’d like to get the camera up and recording it as soon as possible.
Bear Center Curator Donna Andrews saw our mention in an update about Honey inviting Lucky into her den 3 years ago. She looked up the video she took at the time and posted it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTuxcCUlYE. She took it through the Bear Center viewing windows, so there is no sound except the music she added. Unbelievable that Honey would be antagonistic toward Lucky the rest of the year and have such a change of heart when she saw him walking by her den. The video shows it.
trail cam pic of bear with sunglasses!Could this story be true? A Lily fan who has been a friend for over a decade emailed it with the picture. She wrote, “My friend Janet has a motion detector camera. She lost her sunglasses way out in the woods on November 11th. She searched everywhere for them. No luck. When she went back to check the camera on November 14th, the sunglasses were lying there near the camera. She was totally bewildered because the day she lost the glasses, she had not been to the camera area. Then she downloaded the pictures, and guess what!!!! Janet says, tongue in cheek, that the bear brought her glasses to the camera area and left them there for her.”
Based on the words “tongue in check,” we at the Research Center think a person found the glasses and put them near the camera where a passing bear investigated the novel object and got its picture taken. But that’s just a guess.
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—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center