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| Chat - Saturday, March 17, 2012; Happy St. Patrick's Day | |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 17 2012, 09:34 PM Post #31 |
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Lily the Black bear – UPDATE March 17, 20-2012 Bears in record heat   Juliet and cubs bedded near den - March 17, 2012 Today, when the average high is 34F, it felt good to open all the windows and feel a cool 73-degree breeze. The old record for today is 48F. The black ice on Woods Lake, Clear Lake and Robinson Lake here means the ice will disappear within a week. Weeks before usual. With that kind of heat and bears in winter fur, we wanted to see what bears were doing. At the Bear Center, Lucky played on the pond ice and then spent a few minutes lying in ice water at the melted edge of the pond. A video of his antics is posted on YouTube. We checked Lily’s Den Cam. She and Faith were enjoying the coolness of their den. Tomorrow we will go to Lily’s den and see what’s wrong with their microphone. We watched on the Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera as Lily bit the microphone cable yesterday, but it worked after that. Maybe we missed something later. We checked Jewel’s Den Cam but it was down a lot and the camera in her den is aimed the wrong direction. Tomorrow, we’ll see if we can reposition the camera so she can come and go without disrupting it. A video of Jewel and cubs from yesterday is posted here.  Juliet and tired female cub - March 17, 2012 We wondered about Juliet and her 3 cubs denned in a willow/alder swamp. Could their den avoid getting wet with all the melting? We checked. All the snow was melted in the swamp. The den was wet, and the family was 2-3 feet outside nursing in good harmony. They continued nursing for a long time. After that, Juliet went halfway into the den to drink! No wonder they are out of the den. Juliet was good enough to let us remove her gawdy ribbons from last fall. Then she nursed the cubs again, but one cub, the light-faced female was so tuckered out after the first nursing that she decided to sleep that nursing out despite Juliet nudging her repeatedly with her nose. One cub was more active than the others. He let us see that he is a male with a dark face—no eyebrow patches and a dark muzzle that is light only in a narrow strip along his upper lip. We didn’t see the sex of the third cub, whose very light muzzle looks like Lily’s.  Terri carries cub in mouth - April 2, 1989 The good look at the cubs made us wonder if they are any bigger than Fern and Herbie. They weren’t all that mobile yet. The most we saw for walking was 3 staggering steps by the most active cub. One tried to climb up Juliet’s fur like Jewel’s cubs can do, but getting their back legs to cooperate to stand on four legs and take a step was a problem. With their lack of mobility, we wonder if Juliet carried them out of the wet den in her mouth like we saw Terri carry her cubs away from their wet den on April 2, 1989. We also remember finding June and her cubs outside their den on March 25, 2007 when their den got wet. They went back in a week later when the den dried out and the weather turn cold. Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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