Woodland Park Zoo’s annual Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves on Saturday will teach you how to camp safety in bear country and learn how to co-exist with wolves.
Enjoy talks by the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project and zookeepers, enrichment treats for bears and wolves, campsite demonstrations by Boy Scouts, and activities focused on what bears and wolves need to survive in the wild and how we can all co-exist.
Watch the zoo’s grizzlies rip through a campsite and back yard set up in their naturalistic exhibit and see the messy results of improperly stored food and garbage in bear country. Hear about wolf conservation efforts by Wolf Haven International. And learn about the plight of Asian bears.
Approximately 20,000 black bears exist in Washington and fewer than 30 grizzly bears remain in the North Cascades and Selkirk Mountains. Biologists believe there could be as few as 10 individual grizzly bears in the Cascades.
Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves is from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and is included with zoo admission. The campsite exhibition is from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Photo by Ryan Hawk, Woodland Park Zoo.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Megan the Vegan // May 31, 2010 at 9:40 am
Free Smokey!
2 Smokey // May 31, 2010 at 11:26 am
Maybe I missed something but there is no date on this event. Looking on the zoo’s site, I found out it was on June 5th but the times above are completely wrong (10am-2pm really). Lame.
3 Coffee:Black // May 31, 2010 at 11:34 am
Just pretend you are a squirrel, I have seen those guys run from them.
4 Tahomajim // May 31, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I was there one day and one bear was in the pool trying to catch a trout when a duck landed in the pool. In front of everybody, with one bite, the duck was gone, nothing left but a few feathers floating in the pool. The kid next to me said to his mom, “that bear ate the whole duck, even the feet and beak.”
The zoo is very educational!
5 Coffee:Black // May 31, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Also, the ducks of the Greenlake area are so docile as to be almost suicidal. You could probably get away with picking one up without the least bit of panic.
6 Doree // Jun 1, 2010 at 11:14 am
Smokey – Sorry for any confusion. The post did say it was coming up on Saturday, but I didn’t think I needed to add the date. The times of 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. came from the zoo’s press release.
7 Allen Nyhuis // Jun 13, 2010 at 11:21 am
I love the Woodland Park Zoo. It’s great when they have offerings like this, to help young people. I agree that the zoo (like all zoos) is very educational.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America’s Best Zoos
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