Lily's female cub confirms her gender Ask and you shall receive. Sometimes it seems to work that way. Yesterday we expressed our doubt over the sexes of Lily’s cubs. We thought we saw a female on February 13, but every ‘view’ since then was male. We just weren’t seeing any confirmation of a female. Today it came.
Lily's male cub - Feb 21, 2013Lily moved and a cub lost its grip and rolled out from under her and onto its back—all 4 feet flailing in the air. We studied the footage frame by frame. We compared the images to the ones from the February 21 ‘view’, which was so clearly a male. Yup, Lily has a female. The video version of the 'view' is posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J955CbM8jjo.
Cub paw touches Lily's snoutSo we can begin thinking of names. We aren’t sure how we will proceed with the naming, so best to hold name ideas for now.
Ted in his denTed’s Den Cam was repositioned today so we don’t have to tilt our heads to see it. Maybe that is how Sue got the stiff neck. We’re going to see if we can do something to eliminate the glare from the snow on sunny days. This image was captured after sunset so does not have that glare. Ted's Den Cam is at http://www.bear.org/website/live-cameras/live-cameras/ted-nabc-cam-2013-now-live.html.
Cute cub with eyes openWe won’t complain about these warm sunny days, though. Icicles have been dropping from the eaves of buildings, but not yet from in front of the camera in Lily’s den. She has a growing set of stalactites.
Work is progressing on the addition for the Hope Learning Center. They began installing windows today. More and more it’s taking shape so we can begin to visualize the space we’ll have to work with.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
All pictures were taken today unless otherwise noted.