jonesthecurl wrote:In other news, I went to the local zoo today, and was surprised to see the bears up and about, looking very lively. Shouldn't they be hibernating?
I learned from the information sheet on the wall that bear cubs are born during the mother's hibernation - and sometimes she doesn't even wake up!
Now that's an arrangement that would go down very well with quite a few humans.
bears aren't true hibernators like the Alaskan ground squirrel.