Grizzly bear
Hawthorne’s chocolatey-brown, from Alaska. Huckleberry’s a little lighter, from Montana. Both were orphaned in the wild – and now they’re “brothers” here at Northwest Trek.
Come meet our grizzly bears!
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Born in winter 2018, our grizzly bears were orphaned in the wild: Hawthorne in Alaska, Huckleberry in Montana. Neither would have survived without their mom. Cared for by local zoos, they then came to their new Northwest Trek home in August 2018.
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Hawthorne and Huckleberry are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild. Northwest Trek supports grizzly bear conservation, especially in Washington.
Did you know?
Fur and muscle.
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Grizzlies are one of the largest terrestrial predators in North America, with blond, brown or black fur and silver guard hairs that give them their common name. |
They have long curved front claws, a prominent shoulder hump made of muscle and a long snout. Full-grown, they're 6.5 feet long and around 3 feet high. |
Solitude, space
and plenty of food.
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Grizzly bears live in remote areas of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, southwest Canada and Alaska. They're endangered in Washington, with only a handful left. |
They eat a variety of food: large and small mammals, carrion, salmon, fruit, plants and insects, depending on what's in season. |
Babies
and cubs
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Breeding in May-July, females give birth to a litter of 1-3 blind and helpless cubs, each weighing about a pound. |
A bear's most important senses are smell and hearing. Young cubs can climb trees, but adults get too big. |