While the bears are still in bed sanctuary staff are getting their breakfast ready. A delicious selection of fruit and vegetables are hidden in trees, shoved in holes in posts, placed under rocks; peanut butter is smeared on poles and coconut milk dribbled on stones for the bears to lick. The pools in each enclosure are emptied out, cleaned and refilled.
It is important that the bears develop their natural abilities to forage for food and not have it placed in front of them. It is also stimulating their very intelligent minds and giving them some fun. And oh what fun it was to watch them discover their breakfast.
And they're off ! Looking for breakfast...
At 9:30 the dens are opened and they quickly amble out. The sweet things goe first – the apples and watermelon, sweet potato and carrots. The pumpkin and cabbage is left until last. Just like children, they go for the good stuff first. Climbing up poles, diving on to hammocks, sniffing around in the grass, each bear gets its fill and some stop for a bottom scratch on a nearby post.
Life couldn’t get much better than this.
Liane
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