Bear Mountain News

"Bear Mountain News" by the breeding staff.
If you have visited the venue even once, you may be wondering, "What's wrong with that brown bear?"
Therefore, we will deliver the state of brown bears living well even for those who can not come easily.
Please come and check out the brown bears even after you come to the venue!
And if you are new to Bear Mountain, you will definitely enjoy it when you come! is


3/2 2012

It's about time to wake up spring

The brown bears usually start to wake up from the winter's bath from around the "Day of The Day of Enlightenment", when the earth warms up and the insect (蟄) which shrinks in the soil opens a hole and begins to move. Hinata and Santa are moving differently than they are in winter. We are doing winter with a large number of people, but the time to enter and the time to wake up vary depending on the individual. Who's up next?


Bear Mountain News
2/19 2012

The leaflet is completed! !

The leaflet for 2012 was completed and delivered! Koji is on the cover this time. The contents have also been renewed, so if you see it somewhere, please ♪ pick it up and come and <(_ _)> see the brown bears


Bear Mountain News
2/15 2012

What is the identity of the ice object???

Ice is piled up and looks like an object, but this ice is a very important ice. The reason why it is important is that it is ice given by brown bears in winter so as not to cause dehydration. In the first year of winter, I was making a lot of big ice anyway. However, when I tried to give it to the bears, I did not enter from the shelter of the cage, and I was repeatedly doing the harsh work of dividing one by one and giving it. Scold! Winter is also in its sixth year, and it is calculated as the last minute to enter the serving place? It has evolved into ice. It was back information from the breeding staff who worked quietly during the winter.


Bear Mountain News
2/9 2012

Koji's Rice Straw Tinkling

At the time of the other day's sleep recording, Koji had arranged the bed, so I took it with a video. Even during the winter, you can get up by eating ice or fixing your bed. If you find a brown bear in the mountains in winter... It's scary just to think about it.


Bear Mountain News
2/7 2012

I went to record my sleep.

Today I recorded the sleep of the brown bear. Brown bears in the winter spend about 100 days without drinking or eating. In order to reduce metabolism, the respiratory rate also decreases the number of times than usual. I wanted you to hear such a brown bear's sleep (breathing), and I recorded it with the cooperation of DJ JURI. The recording time was 1 hour, and it was away from the beast house during that time, so I'm looking forward to what kind of sound is ♪ recorded By the way, what do you think a brown bear sleeps like? I think that I can send it at a later date, so please wait for a while. A lot of ice was in front of the beast house. Well, suddenly here is a quiz. What is this ice used for?


Bear Mountain News
1/26 2012

Moko is fine! !

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]


Bear Mountain News
1/17 2012

The beast house is in the snow.

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 News
1/13 2012

Winter in the midst!

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.


Bear Mountain News
1/2 2012

Happy New Year

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.


Bear Mountain News
12/31 2011

2011年ベアマウンテンの大晦日

いよいよ2011年も終わろうとしています。 ベアMtのクマたちは着々と冬ごもりに入り始めています! なかなか寝る気配を見せなかったヒロタケもここ数日はだいぶ落ち着いてきており、換気口の蓋も開けなくなってきました。 そのほかのクマたちは、ほぼ冬ごもりに入っているといっていい状況かと思います。 今日アップする写真は、朝一で寝息を聞いたあと獣舎内に入り、格子扉に張った板の小窓からクマの様子を観ているところです。 クマたちの眠りを邪魔しないように、獣舎内には極力入らないようにします。 しかし、呼吸確認だけではワラの状態や、水分確保のために置いている氷などの有無が確認できないので、懐中電灯の灯りのみでヒソヒソ声で状態を確認しています。 まずは前室の様子。 ここで身支度を整え暗闇の獣舎に入っていきます。 どこか探検に行くような格好です・・・ 小窓からクマの様子をうかがいます。 だいたい今で獣舎内はマイナス5℃くらいです。 特別にフラッシュを焚いて撮っていますが、実際真っ暗で感でシャッターをおしました(。。) とにかく皆さん!寒さに負けず、また来年お会いしましょう!! 【飼育:重松】


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