Status Updates From Among the Bears: Raising Or...

that leaves deep footprints in the area around the soil.
3.) Black bear cubs stay with their mothers for a year and a half after birth. If they get separated from their mother in this period of time, they almost always die.

Facts learned update:
1.) Bears have certain trees that they designate as "bear trees," meaning that they go to those trees to leave markings for other bears.
2.) Bears mark the bear trees and other communal bear areas in a variety of ways, including rubbing their backs and body against the tree or surface, peeing on it, gouging into it with their teeth and claws, and doing an odd stiff-legged walk

Second Interesting words update:
Tactic: noun, an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end (But when that failed, he took a different tactic. . .)

school because he was dyslexic. He explained the adaptions that he had to make in terms of education to earn a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology. School didn’t come easy to Ben—he flunked kindergarten. (In case anyone was wondering, this update was to check for understanding.)

Nothing has really happened in “Among the Bears” so far. In the preface, Ben Kilham talked about his early life, in which animals were always present. His mom and dad would find injured or orphaned animals and nurse them back to health. Some of the animals that Ben grew up included a crocodile, a leopard, ravens, crows, and a variety of other wild animals and dogs. Ben also talked about the struggles he had in