There is a theory that brown bears in the wild go into ``winter hiatus'' due to a combination of the accumulation of snow, their inability to find food, and their hunger, as well as the drop in outside temperature.

In order to prove this, even at Bear Mountain we have periods where we do not feed the animals.

We were also worried that the continued warm days would affect the animals' ability to stay in the winter, but due to the effects of low pressure over the past few days, the outside temperature has dropped significantly, and even inside the animal enclosure, the temperature has dropped to -5 degrees Celsius, creating the conditions for the animals to stay in the winter.

In nature, their winter burrows are earthen holes or rock holes on mountain slopes, and in rare cases tree cavities are also used. So the other day, I installed blinds (using a control panel) on the iron bars in the animal enclosure bedroom to make the room darker so the bears could sleep calmly.

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It also has a small peephole so you can observe the sleeping bear.

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I wanted to feel like a bear, so when I entered the room, it was dim and unexpectedly quiet, like a different world isolated from the outside world.

``I can't believe I'll spend the next few months sleeping...'' I was once again impressed by the amazing abilities of brown bears.

Before the blinds were installed, the bears were fidgety and restless when zookeepers entered the enclosure, but after the blinds were installed, some of the bears began to calm down.

Continued from ~Wara Edition~ [Ito]