The Spirit Bear Story Part Three Since falling into a bears den on New Years Day 2009, a slew of events began to transpire.
Two weeks later Steph went out to the den, with an old Sony video camera a local friend Anne from Poland leant us to help get some footage of the hibernating bear.
It was only then did we realize that the hibernating bear was actually an elusive White Kermode Spirit Bear, we later named Apollo.
I quickly started to look for alternative ways to get some photography of the bear without threatening my life at the same time.
I don’t know that anyone ever will find another Spirit Bear den and film the hibernation like we could.
All the bears are out and we are busy filming everything that moved on four paws.
Steph even made a film while in a neighbors dandelion field called “Parmenters Bears”.
Not so comfortable as to ignore the “Tells” when a bear with a little attitude would approach me.
I’d say out loud: “Hey bear, what do think you’re doing”? “Trying to get in close and personal are ya?” The more I talked directly at them, the faster they would find other grassy areas to eat their favorite dandelions in.
Bears don’t get out of bed looking for a fight.
Nothing makes me more sick than to see some outdoor film with a guy hanging in a chair hoisted from high in a tree, out of the bears scent, and then murder them as they come along unsuspecting.
Driveway to catch the bears eating the multiple berries that grew wild along the road’s edge.
Apollo and Snowball and many other black bears were caught berry red handed by our cameras that spring.
The berries don’t last long and neither does spring, so we had a chance to catch our breath and catch up on how to better film the bears.
The more we thought about what had happened that summer, the more we saw an opportunity to let the whole world in on seeing our Kermode bear.
Finally, Steph got an old tablet laptop from Jethro that would be used later to stream the bear from his den.
I remember getting greeting cards from different students in the United States where the teachers had moved TVs into the classrooms to see the bear Apollo do his hibernation thing.
If you’re every wondering how a bear finds the strength to leave a den after four months of no food, and go prowling for some skunk cabbage roots to clean his unused digestive system out with, he uses hormones.
Apparently a male bear will lick his private parts until properly stimulated.
Especially in front of a live five hundred pound hungry bear.
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