Lily's sensitive nose helps her locate logs that may contain grubs. If she sniffs a log and determines it isn't worth her effort, she wastes no time and continues her search. When she finds a grub-laden log, she settles in and concentrates on locating and licking up as many grubs as she can. Faith joins her mother and big sister—sniffing and digging alongside them. Her diet still consists mainly of Lily's milk, but she samples the foods that Lily and Hope eat.
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Lynn Rogers, Ph.D., regarded by many as the "Jane Goodall" of black bears, has spent over 44 years learning about wildlife and sharing his information with the public. Using airplanes, vehicles and snowshoes, he has radio-tracked over 100 bears in the vast forests of northeastern Minnesota, studying some for as long as 22 years.
Lily is a wild black bear who is part of Dr. Rogers' long-term study of black bear ecology and behavior at the Wildlife Research Institute. On January 8, 2010, Dr. Rogers installed a live video camera in Lily's winter den near Ely, Minnesota, so the public could share in the birth and care of her cub.
Dr. Rogers, along with his research associate Sue Mansfield, and tens of thousands from around the world watched on the Internet, spending a sleepless night as bouts of labor continued for 21 hours and 39 minutes. Finally, on January 22 at 11:38 AM CST, Lily made some contortions, looked under her, and began the intense, sweet grunts that mothers make only to their cubs. A loud squawk from a single female cub made it definite. Lily tucked her head under her chest to care for and breathe on the cub to warm her. This was the first time the birth of a wild black bear has been viewed live on the Internet.
Lily and Hope are proving to be the best ambassadors for bears we know. The number of fans have increased to over 200,000 (over 128,000 on Facebook alone). They learned about bears from the bears themselves. They saw an animal far different from the ferocious image of the media. They want to share their knowledge and have become a force for bears.
The interest in Lily and Hope was unexpected and much appreciated by all who truly know bears. Hundreds of classrooms began each day watching the Lily Den Cam and then going on to include Lily and Hope in lessons throughout the day. People who watched from their homes discussed these bears online and became friends, all bonded by their love of these bears.
Last summer, Lily unexpectedly went into estrus, temporarily abandoning Hope to mate. They reunited and are denning together once again, as mother and yearling should. However, this year, Lily entered the den pregnant and had two new cubs along with Hope.
Visit http://www.bear.org and http://www.bearstudy.org to learn more about the research and the bears who are part of it.
Es ist so phantastisch, dies zu sehen. Danke ihnen, und ihrem Team. Gruß von Austria
fascinating foraging family! ...for every grub they eat one less grown insect
thanks for sharing once again wee Faith is the starlette brightness
What excellent footage! Ty so much. Made me itchy though seeing them icky mosquito's. Faith sure is a trooper :)
Amazing how they can get enough to eat with the grubs being so small. The bears look like us in South Louisiana trying to eat enough crawfish to fill us up! Great video!
they are a busy family,can they sure can tear a log apart to get at the grub worms, they sure have to go trough alot of work to get those grub worms. great to watch Lily, Hope and Miss Faith. Thanks for all the wonderfull videos
Does Faith know what mama is after when she see's Lily rippen into a log or is Faith just having fun tearing into logs?
you might have to google the nutritional contenet of a grub, and I agree about the flies, why cant they put something on the bear like I do my dog to keep fleas off of her?
How is the camera so close?
They need some back woods off! Those deer flies are terrible.
Great video closeups of finding and licking up the grubs.