Hope, Lily, and Juliet
July 6, 2010 – 7:49 PM CDT
Hope was in her usual area and easy to find this morning—phew! She got her helping of formula, mealworms, grapes, and pecans about 7 AM.
Late morning, we checked on Lily and found her as high as she could climb in a big red pine. We apparently scared her coming in. She soon came down and we took her heart rate (82), changed her GPS unit, checked her breasts (flat), and her estrus status. There is still some enlargement of the genitals but not like there was. Estrus is either over or waning. Her main attention was on the relentless deer flies and horse flies, batting at them, shaking her head, or trying to bite them out of the air. As we checked on her, we grabbed deer flies off her ears. When we showed them to her, they disappeared with a quick flick of her tongue.
Next stop was Juliet and her 3 cubs. On this hot, humid, sunny day, we found them resting in a densely shaded cedar swamp. We compared Juliet’s cubs (left) to Hope (right), and they are doing about the same.
Again, we felt deep gratitude watching your efforts to keep the Bear Center in the top 5 in the face of stiff competition and your efforts to edge the Wildlife Research Institute upward.
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—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center