It's warmer on a snowy day than on a sunny day.

The bears finished their last feeding day on the 20th and are about to enter full-scale fasting and winter.

Last year, after the bears calmed down, we added rice straw to the room as a nesting material, but this year we experimented with changing the method.

This is because we thought that the introduction of straw may have had a great influence on the bears of Bear Mountain to enter winter.

Today, for the time being, I put rice straw in Yawara, Inuo, and Misumi's room.

After finishing the cleaning, I put a bear in the room from the chute, and the reaction to the straw was very good.

First, Yawara noticed Walla as soon as he entered the room and raked it with his front paws to put it under his body. Collect and scatter, collect and scatter repeatedly, softly loosening the straw.

I was slowly impressed when I saw with my own eyes for the first time how I was intently fiddling with the straw to prepare the bed for the winter...

Inuo did the same by messing with the straw to make a round bird's nest-like bed, curled up in the center of the bed and began to sleep. However, the other animals were still awake, and we were also continuing the cleaning work, so we woke up a little asleep and messed around again, wondering if we were worried about the surrounding noise.

Misumi also noticed right away and started messing with the straw, but before she could fiddle with it so carefully, she fell asleep on the straw she had collected appropriately. Apparently, the full-fledged winter holiday is still a long way off.

↑ Shooting without flash. It is Yawara's bed. I build a nest in the back left of the room and curl up and sleep.

↑ I sleep with my face covered with my hands. Flash dazzling?! Sorry!

← put in two bunches of straw today.

↑ Putting straw in Misumi's room. Set with the feeling of "nest, make it".

[Breeding: Ito]