A Keeper’s Point of View, Part 2

I wrote about the beginning of my day in my last post. It showed my point of view as Gus was waking up from a night of sleeping on the cliff. This series of pictures was taken on the same day. After checking the bear fence, I checked the lemurs and the wolves. By the time I got to the bear house he had climbed down the cliff and was making his way over to the bear house. I amRead more

What was happening there?

I recently posted a drawing and asked you to tell me what was happening here. Many of you commented, but no one was exactly right. The above drawing was indeed of a bear- Gus to be specific. The round dot on his back was his puff of matted hair. I did not think the puff was drawn accurately (unlike the rest of the drawing) so I added the “dart”, “spike-like” projection out of the back.  There is no way IRead more
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Packages for the Bears.

I thought the bears would be thrilled to have the 15 pounds or so of nuts that my neighbor left on my doorstep last week. However, in addition to the almonds and hazelnuts that Donna left on my doorstep, the bears received their own mail at the Museum. 50 pounds of walnuts arrived at the Museum addressed to the four of them! The bears have Kelly Taylor, our Rentals Manager to thank. Kelly absolutely LOVES the bears and asked herRead more

King of the hay hill

During our daily Meet the Keeper program, Gus climbed up on top of a huge hay bale. I thought he looked very handsome. Three of these hay bales were left over from Pumpkin Patch Express, they make great enrichment for the bears.  After he finished hanging out on top of this one, he walked over to another one and started tearing into it, ripping hay from it while walking backwards. (the bales are round and roll) You never know whatRead more