Hello. Today is the introduction of the bear who made his Bear Mountain debut this year. I'm Mitt (6 years old). The system is very slender. Right now, I am still in special training because I can become a bus that runs in other bears and parks! I wonder if I've gotten used to it lately... ↓ It is Mr. Mitt who is relaxing in the water. If you come to Bear Mountain, you may be able to see such a cute figure. More than a rookie (new bear?) It was an introduction! ★ Event Information ★ Rainbow trout giveaway! Date May 3, 4, 5 from 10:40 a.m. Please take a look at the bear chasing the fish with all its might, albeit stubbornly! Breeding Staff Shijuei

Tomorrow, we will finally open for the 2014 academic year. We held an annual event inviting new first-year elementary school students in Shintoku-machi. Now in its ninth year of operation, Bear Mountain has been there many times! While there are many first-year students, it is also part of the school class, and they listen seriously to the breeding staff. First, take a bus to the brown bear forest. I'm desperate to find a bear. Then, I found one in the back! That's the mitt that will debut in Bear Mountain this spring. Bear Mountain 1 is a young (6 year old) bear. And maybe you're not looking at a bear with your eyes off the plough, but you're being watched. At the bear point where you can meet through the glass, you are very close to Mr. Kuma! Santa Hinata's double stand excited the teachers and reporters from the first grade!? Blessed with good weather, the invitation to the new first-year students was successfully completed. The children also went back to school with happy words, "I'll come three more times." The weather looks good tomorrow and tomorrow, so please come and see the bears on an outing at GW.

This weekend, Saturday, April 26, 2014 business will finally begin. The trial release has already begun, and there is no shortage of preparations. The youngest mitt (6 years old) will make his debut in the park, so the breeding staff is also nervous. Because of their youth, they monitor with a twinkle in their eye, such as how they behave and how they are compatible with other bears. Also this year, 13 handsome bears (!?) They live carefree in the forest, so please come and see them.

In March, Enlightenment Day is approaching. Around the end of February this year, perhaps because of the continued high temperatures, Mitt (6 years old) and Moko (12 years old) started to fidget, and they started to get up and move around a lot, so we decided to start feeding the two heads from March 1. 　← photo is a bear pellet (bait), and since I haven't eaten anything for about 3 months, I give it after softening it thoroughly with hot water. 　　 ← photo shows the mitt at the moment of eating rice for the first time in about 3 months. I ate it in an instant without tasting it only by the young bear. Initially, I will give it about the amount of photos and gradually increase the amount. Other bears began to notice the smell of the bait, and some bears were waiting in front of the lattice door of the room. From now on, the number of bears to feed gradually increases, and the breeding staff gradually becomes busier these days. Breeding Staff

Even though there was no calendar or clock, the bears began to move. It seems that it is about time to wake up. There is also a bear that is already standing up, and when you look at the situation, it seems that it is healthy enough to feel the power of the eyes even though it has not eaten anything for about 3 months. The breeding staff is also relieved. Well, the story was taken in the middle of a winter retreat. In order to sleep with peace of mind, we put a compound panel on the iron barn of the barn, but rice straw is sticking out from the gap. If you look next to you, there is no such thing. Apparently, the bear is filling the rice straw in the gap in the companel as if to prevent the gap wind. It was like painting concrete on a wall with the palm of your hand like a plasterer... I grinned just imagining it embedding it with those big forelimbs. The photo on the left is also dirty because the rice straw is dirty, so I think it is coming out of the gap below, but it seems to prevent the gap wind. It is interesting that rice straw beds and crevice wind prevention are made in completely different ways depending on the individual. Bear Mountain will start operating on Saturday, April 26th!

Clinton followed by Koji-kun. I opened the ceiling vent to let in the light, so I woke up here as well. What's that? I look up as if to say, and check to see if the door that can be seen in the back of the photo opens, and I ask how it is in slow motion. Compared to Clinton, the rice straw bed is smaller and thinner. When you put a straight rice straw in the room, you can chew it or roll it with your front legs to soften it, creating your own comfortable place (bed). This varies from individual to individual, and some bears make it neatly sowing, while others sleep peacefully and cluttered, revealing their personality. Koji is... a meticulous person.

The inside of the animal house is a private room for each head, and you do not care about other bears!? It's winter. It was pitch dark, but excuse me, and I lit the lights. Clinton sleeps with a pile of rice straw. I sleep with my chin high and my chin resting. (The right side of the black object is the tip of the nose, the left is the buttocks) The rice straw in the foreground is a hindrance. Can't you take a picture a little easier to understand? Well, if it was taking so long, I would have woken it up.　Sorry Clinton. Brown bears are not hibernating, but winter bears, so they are sleeping with their faces. Female bears give birth during the winter months and can be active immediately if something happens. Even if you find a bear burrow in the mountains in the winter, please leave it alone.

氷点下10℃の寒空の下、お祈りをしています。 ・・・というのは冗談で、ヒグマたちの寝息を計測しています。 獣舎の屋根の上に換気口があり、 ここから冬ごもり中のヒグマの寝息を確認します。 代謝を抑えるため、呼吸数も減少。 1分間に2?3回ほどしか呼吸をしません。 T時に見える管の片方を手で抑え、もう片方を耳に当てて確認。 晴れの日も、吹雪の日も、欠かせない大切な作業です。 飼育下において集団で冬ごもりをしているのは、世界的に見てもここベア・マウンテンだけ。 今年で8回目の冬を迎えています。