Cubs snuggled in Juliet's fur It’s a peaceful scene in Juliet’s den. Juliet is hovering over contented-sounding cubs breathing a relaxed 3.5 time per minute, waiting 8 seconds after each exhale before drawing the next breath.
Holly is carefully rearranging her straw, raking it to her and then snuggling down into it. She did that several times before declaring the bed okay and settling in.
But things were not so quiet elsewhere in Minnesota as Moe and the Moettes record the song they composed to welcome Holly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4g-M_qoKzE.
Things have been jumping around Lake Tahoe as Ann Bryant and her Bear League respond to concerns about bears hibernating under houses. Some landowners are okay with bears under their houses, many never realize it, and some want the bears out. Estimates are that there are about 100 bears sleeping under houses around the lake.
Juliet and cubLittle Ann is the designated “outer.” She can squeeze through the same opening bears use to get under the houses. She says no bear has hurt her in the hundreds of times she has “outed” trespassing bears. Ann also says no other people have been hurt by bears left in place—not the landowners, their children, their neighbors, delivery people, or other visitors. Her story is here http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/assignment_7&id=9414189. Ann is featured in the North American Bear Center in the section on Living and Camping with Black Bears.
Many thanks to Lily Fans who are donating toward a comfortable enclosure for Honey now that Holly has taken over Honey’s old enclosure. You have already given enough to cover the new enclosure! If enough additional donations come in, we’ll enlarge Ted’s enclosure. We plan to continue rotating Ted and Lucky this year unless they show peaceful intentions when they meet through Ted’s fence.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center