Field work took a back seat today as the BBC begins the countdown to the first broadcast of Planet Earth Live and Bear Center staff prepare for the North American Bear Center’s 5th anniversary celebration tomorrow. Visitors to the Bear Center tomorrow will be greeted by costumed bears and there will be guided nature trail walks, door prizes every hour, and face-painting for kids and the “young at heart.” Cake, cookies, and coffee will be available.
For those unable to join in the onsite festivities, tomorrow starts 5 days (through May 9th) of free shipping for domestic webstore orders. Canada/Mexico shipping rate will be a flat fee of $10 and the International shipping rate will be a flat fee of $20 for the 5 day period.
New items are being added to the webstore as we write this! They can be seen later this evening at http://www.bear.org/website/new-items.html.
At the Bear Center a couple days ago, Lucky got a new water toy that apparently had an attractive odor. For some reason, he wanted to rub his head on it. See what you think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J26NQLgJC3g&;feature=youtu.be.
News is spreading about the upcoming BBC and NatGeoWILD broadcasts http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9475358.htm.
Video footage of Jewel, Herbie, and Fern from April 27 is posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqMrpSaZ_M0.
So many of you are doing so much behind the scenes.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center