A Year in the Life: Brown Bear Hibernation | Brooks Live Chat

[@tawpsyd]

Thank you!

[@geraldsmyser1956]

Thank you. Very informative & interesting.

[@AlinaI-c5b]

I enjoyed the chat, thank you! Informative & great.

[@thirstyd0g]

Thank you Explore and Katmai!

[@theck672]

Thank you for this educational and informative live chat. Bear physiology is of great interest to me and I loved learning more about it❣️🐻😍🙏

[@susiepittman601]

This was excellent. Thank you.

[@CeriGoff]

Fantastic live chat thank you Sarah and Michael, incredible details, astounding facts.

[@campingknitter]

fascinating discussion - thank you!

[@AlinaI-c5b]

I enjoyed the chat, thank you! It was very informative and great.

[@KarolM1964]

Here's some questions that I thought about during this broadcast... Do sows know if they are pregnant when they're digging their den and that it has to be bigger? Sarah mentioned that some bears even leave the park boundaries to den..how does she know that? Can a bear be tracked to find it's den site? Does a bear that has to dig a den for the first time automatically know how to choose a good site and how to dig it? Does anyone know who the bear is at 14:31 ? Listening to Michael talk about torpur and hibernation was a lot to absorb..mind blown! Great video!

[@thirstyd0g]

I assumed that they learned the art of den making from watching their mothers, until I watched some videos a few years ago from Orphan Bear Rescue in Russia. There was one particular cub, much smaller than the others and much more shy, she always went off on her own and didn’t want to sleep in the shed with the other cubs. Over a few weeks she created this den under some big tree roots, I watched her clearing all the leaves from the area and carefully selecting bits of dried grass to pull into the den. She worked really hard at it and she’d never had the chance to learn it from other bears. She just knew. It was pretty amazing :)

[@Frankie_Lee2]

Who is this playing this lovely musical interlude and what is it called. Please Thanks so much, it’s beautiful.