Bear Mt's eye of the typhoon "Moko" is firmly in winter this year, and it seems to be a lie that I did not sleep at all last year. Today, I had you go out of the room for the first time in a long time by replacing all the straws in moko's room, but the movement was slow and seemed to be completely in winter mode like other individuals. Straw is finely chewed and shredded, and it is completely pettanco by weight. The room is 1000000 and the room is 1000000000.>. <) Moko's nails create an atmosphere. After all I wonder if it is young ... If it is a bear in normal winter warmth mode, I do not stand up too much and appeal, but that area is really moko! As long as I entered the room, I began to process the sesse and the new straw to make it easier to sleep. The sound of biting the straw and cutting it echoes in the beast house. It makes you feel the strength of the bear's ang again. The temperature in the beast house is minus 9 degrees Celsius! The temperature outside has also dropped to around minus 20°C, and it is a situation where the natural environment of Hokkaido can be created. However, I feel the vitality of the brown bear sleeping in this situation and a tremendous thing. And it is also a hat off the strength of Sarah Moko's dog who is doing well in front of the ski resort ticket! If humans could not lose, it was a keeper who went to the beast house in super thick clothes today (laughs) [Breeding: Shigematsu]

The animal house, which has cooled down very much due to the cold wave of the past few days, has finally dropped its room temperature to minus 9 degrees Celsius. Of course, the outside temperature is much colder, but the heat emitted by the bears that are crowded in winter is somewhat warmer indoors, but even if it gets cold up to now, it was about minus 6 ° C, but it may be due to the cold of this year that has fallen so far this time. The cold is very severe in the Tokachi region, but it is not such a heavy snowfall area, so snow does not accumulate as much as it does, but Sahoro piles up as it is, so the snow shoveling of the beast house is like a daily routine, but finally the snow that has been piled up on the roof of the beast house and scratched has covered the beast house! From the point of looking at areas with a lot of snow, it may not be a big deal, but a sense of accomplishment that can not be said indescribably? I took a picture involuntarily. I think that you can see a concrete building, but it is covered with a wall of snow that leaves only that. It is a thing that chile piles up, too. By the way, it is a snowy mountain of fluffy with amazing powder snow because the cold is (^^) severe recently [breeding: Shigematsu]

Bear Mountain bears, who have entered winter mode with the start of 2012, are still sleeping quietly today. Hirotake, who has shown resistance such as opening the lid of the ventilation mouth until the end, has grown up completely for the past week and has a (^^) good night's sleep Well, I have talked about the winter weight of the brown bear before, but it is not a state of temporary death or continuing to sleep without getting up until spring, depending on the time of day, I lick the ice, rumbling and messing with the straw. Therefore, the keeper checks every day, and the straw that gets dirty or moist takes the bear out of the acupuncture house and performs the replacement work. Today, we did a straw replacement work for Kota's room. I saw Kota that came to light for the first time in a long time, but I could see that there was no particular serious thinness and that I was having a smooth winter. Kota's bed. It's a bit messy and it's completely pettanco (laughs) This is a lump of ice left for hydration. There are about 50 cm × 30 cm, and what is missing is the mark that kota licked. Some bears have Garigari-kun. Welcome Kota with a beautiful straw. I was a little wary, but after this I entered easily and fiddling with straw so that I could sleep easily.

Happy New Year. It is Moko. We celebrated 2012 with a lot of light from the first sunrise. And today, I went out into the unknown. It is Sahorodake Shrine. It is a guardian dog, koma moko. I was told what, and I was shaken by the gondola. Mt. Sahoro Shrine built next to the gondola summit station building. Why don't you come and visit ☆ It was a surprise moko on the gondola for the first time.

2011 is finally coming to an end. Bear Mt's bears are steadily entering the winter months! Hirotake, who had never shown any signs of sleeping, has calmed down considerably over the past few days, and has stopped opening the vent lid. I think it's safe to say that the other bears are mostly in hibernation for the winter. The photo I'm going to upload today is of me going into the animal enclosure after hearing the bear's breathing first thing in the morning and watching the bear through the small board window in the lattice door. Please avoid entering the animal enclosure as much as possible so as not to disturb the bears' sleep. However, it is not possible to check the condition of the straw or the presence of ice placed to maintain moisture by just checking for breathing, so we check the condition using only flashlights and whispers. First, let's look at the front room. Here I get ready and enter the dark animal house. He looks like he's going exploring somewhere... He watches the bear through a small window. Currently, the temperature inside the animal house is about -5 degrees Celsius. I took this photo with a special flash, but it was actually pitch black so I had to press the shutter (...) Anyway, everyone! Don't give up on the cold and see you next year!! [Breeding: Shigematsu]

Today marks 7 days since I completely fasted. It's been three days since we renovated each room on the 22nd to make it more winter-friendly (we put a board over the lattice door to make it darker and put straw in it for sleeping), but the Bear Mt bears are already starting to move into winter. Meanwhile, there's a bear who doesn't seem to be sleeping... It's Hirotake, a problem child. In the summer, I leave the lid of the ventilation hole on the roof open to improve ventilation, but in the winter, I close the lid of the ventilation hole to darken the room and prevent snow from getting in, but so far, only the Hirotake mushroom opens the lid by itself (><) I've made a diagram to make it easier to understand! ! Even though I have no artistic talent, I took on a reckless challenge (.＿.) But this is what it really looks like! Maybe... It's like hell, but I can open it even if someone is on top of the lid. As expected of a brown bear! ! If it were a human, it would be one punch. This is a really shocking photo! If you look closely, you can see the forelimbs of Hirotake. [Breeding: Shigematsu]

She had her final feeding on the 18th and went on a complete fast from the 19th, and today is the 4th day. Today we worked to create a more comfortable sleeping environment by putting boards on the lattice doors of each room. Clinton is likely to be the first to stay home this winter!! When I go out of the room, I don't want to come out and my movements are slow. For the past few days, he had been sleeping in the corner of the room, and I noticed that he didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, but today, as soon as he entered the room, he shook the straw that he had prepared and quickly laid down on his back and fell asleep. It's a little hard to tell, but it's Kouji entering a room with straw. Everyone came in obediently, probably because there was a wall today. If you leave straw behind, they will start making their own bedding as they like. No one teaches these behaviors; everyone does them instinctively! They have quite a unique personality and are interesting, so I'll be introducing more about them in the future (^^) [Breeding: Shigematsu]

From December 23rd, a nature tour will begin where you can walk around the park on snowshoes. First, we will proceed on the bear watching bus course. What you can see above is the promenade course. How do the bears look up? That's what I thought when I started. We found a tree whose skin was peeling off due to excessive marking (back rubbing)☆ Even though there was 50 cm of snow on the ground, there were claw marks on the head of a male staff member. The real pleasure of nature tours is being able to see things so close. And the hair that fell out during marking (back rubbing) is still there. I wonder what brown bear fur feels like. This is the content of the tour. You won't be able to see the brown bears who are huddled in winter, but if you can feel the brown bears and walk on the fluffy snow, even if you can't ski or snowboard, you can still walk energetically. Snowshoe rental is included, so we look forward to your participation! Bear Mountain Forest Nature Tour Details Click here for last year's schedule

Today I went to see the inside of Bear Mountain for the first time in a while. As expected, the park was covered in deep snow, making it difficult to walk without snowshoes. I mainly walked along the promenade, and there was about 3cm of snow above my knees, so the view from that point of view was completely different from the summer season. (It's different in the first place since it's winter, but...) The fall prevention net installed on the promenade seems to even prevent snow from falling, and there was a thick layer of snow on top of the net, and if we didn't remove it, it would put a heavy burden on the fall prevention net, so today we worked hard to remove the snow. I took the opportunity to upload a photo of the promenade covered in snow, which is hard to see (^^)

It's mid-December, and Bear Mountain is completely covered in deep snow. It feels like there's a lot of snow this year, probably because there wasn't much snow last year. In fact, it is said that there is a relationship between snow and winter confinement, and depending on the depth of the snow, some brown bears dig to find and eat food, while others calmly burrow into a hole to reduce energy consumption and wait for spring, rather than moving around tirelessly to search for food. Every morning, there is a thick layer of snow on the roof of the animal enclosure due to the constant snowfall, but removing this snow is actually very important.If the snow is not removed properly, the body heat of the bears inside the enclosure will melt the snow on the roof, dripping into the rooms where the bears are sleeping, dampening the straw that the bears sleep on during winter confinement, and potentially robbing the bears, whose metabolism has slowed, of their body heat. Therefore, when the snow accumulates every day, the keepers thoroughly remove the snow before working on the animal housing, but this year, the pace of snowfall has been fast, and the snow that was falling from the roof has already piled up and reached the roof of the animal housing (><) Last year, I think it only reached this point around February, so I'm looking forward to seeing how far it will go this year (^.^)! [Breeding: Shigematsu]