Bear Snow SculptureIn this 10-minute video, the loving couple, Lucky and Holly, are resting face to face with Lucky crowding onto Holly’s side of the bed, showing gentle interactions without the unkind words we occasionally saw from Lucky’s den mates Ted and Honey in years past. No wonder Lucky paid Holly a visit in the fall and maybe invited her to join him. Whatever it was, he must have missed her to go to her den to see her, and she must have missed him to leave the den and join him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ex3anEafQw&feature=youtu.be
Dawn and KateIn this 4-minute video, Holly starts working on her foot pads and then gets distracted by a piece of paper. No hurry, she has a couple months to get rid of the foot pads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQgvcbHvbc
In this 18-second video from June 21, 2009, a cub (Jewel or Jordan) makes a deft leap from a tree to a beaver dam and June is foraging, I think for jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) leaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfUuhm23MiY
At the Winter Festival in Ely today a snow sculptor turned the tables on the theme of a child holding a teddy bear on his or her lap. This time it is the child on the bear’s lap.
At the Women’s Expo in Lansing, Michigan, Lily Fan Dawn Minerick was carrying a bag with a bear my daughter Kate recognized, which resulted in them meeting. Fun.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center