Check out these links to video’s of Munsey and Boda playing and eating on a rainy Thursday morning of June 22nd, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oST9z9Ulm94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWg2NFivlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mny3WKGo-o0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24RHbxoxebE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdP5AZfG4xg
Munsey and Boda really enjoy their morning and afternoon snacks. A great time to see the Kodiak bear cubs get their snacks is right after breakfast, which is around 9:00 am and lunch is served around 2:30 pm.
After breakfast and snack time, it’s time for a major water fight! Munsey and boda love to splash and play aggressively in the Bear pond and the pool area located in front of the observation window at Wildwood Zoo in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Munsey and Boda now stand at a height of 7 feet tall (measuring from hind legs to their head) and 9 feet in height if (measured from hind feet to front legs).
The cubs love to take a bath and splash each other in the pond located in the Bear Woods! They also love to eat any new cat tails planted in the pond. The head zoo keeper Steve Burns, had hoped that Munsey and Boda would allow the plants to grow but in 30 minutes time, the plants had been devoured by the cubs!
Munsey talent is to take a rock and place it on his snout and flips it into the air. He’ll also take a large stick and use it to scratch his chin, head and back.
Boda’s special talent is climbing high into the trees, sometimes 35 feet up into the trees.
Today Munsey and Boda offered zoo guest’s an up close and personal experience to interact via the large observation window at Wildwood Zoo in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Both the young and the young at heart love interacting with Munsey and Boda!
Below is a link to when I was interviewed by WSAW Channel 7 news station. The wonderful camera man came to my home and we chatted about the bears for at least an hour and then went to the zoo and spent another another hour or more talking about the rescued Kodiak bear cubs, Munsey and Boda!
Thank you Channel 7 News Station for the great coverage on Wildwood Zoo and Marshfield, Wisconsin.
If you’d like to purchase any of the photographic Kodiak bear books or other merchandise dedicated to Munsey and Boda, please stop in at “iMAGiNETHAT!” Art Studio on July 28,29 and 30th or October 6,7 and 8th. My art studio is #12 on the NORTHWOODS ART TOUR MAP. http://www.northwoodsarttour.com.
The observation window at the JP Kodiak Bear Exhibit is offers a wonderful view of Munsey and Boda while their eating, playing and interacting with zoo guests. It’s that time of year when many school groups are stopping in to visit the animals at Wildwood Zoo!
If you happen to see me around and want an update on the bears, please feel free to stop and me any questions. I’m usually wearing a camera around my neck , small backpack and sometime a chart for documenting information about the bears.
On Saturday, May 13th Munsey and Boda spent a few hours floating and playing with the metal beer keg in the pond located in the Bear Woods habitat area at Wildwood Zoo in Marshfield Wisconsin.
The Kodiak bear’s seemed almost well behaved as they shared the empty beer keg.
I often wonder if Munsey and Boda can smell the remains of the beer inside the keg.
Of course Munsey and Boda have to hug each other /wrestle each other in the water as well as on land! On their most active days the bears will play tag and wrestle with each other every 20 to 30 minutes. The interaction can last anywhere from 2 minutes to 10 minutes.
Since the bears have such a heightened sense of smell, I wonder if they can identify what their brother has eaten for a meal that day? The specific action between the two bears is considered a positive interaction.
The video clip above depicts Munsey, Boda and Dodge after they were rescued on Kodiak Island and taken to the Zoo in Anchorage.
The photographs (above the video clip) were taken shortly after the cubs arrived at the Wildwood Zoo in Marshfield Wisconsin.
The video link below explains the rescue story of Munsey, Boda and Dodge and includes photographs of when the cubs were first rescued. I also recommend that you check out the two links that are provided with this video, to learn about the Grand Opening and other information about the rescue of the Kodiak Bear Cubs.
The link below is a video of Munsey and Boda’s first Birthday party that was celebrated at Wildwood Zoo in Marshfield, Wiscosnin.
Tree climbing is a favorite pass time for the cubs. Here are two video clips of Munsey and Boda climbing the tree’s. The first video is of the cubs climbing in October 2015 and the other two video’s depict the cubs climbing the tree’s in April of 2017.
Munsey and Boda have a brother Dodge that lives at the To
ledo Zoo in Ohio. Dodge has bonded with two female Grizzly cubs. To learn more about Dodge, go to the follwing links below.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=773
http://www.13abc.com/content/news/Rescued-brown-bears-on-exhibit-at-the-Toledo-Zoo-383093881.html
Since I’ve been documenting the rescued Kodiak bear cubs since October 2015, I’ve taken thousands of photographs. So when I over heard the zoo staff talking about the dental health of the bears, I thought I might be able to provide a some assistance.
I returned to my computer and began looking for photographs that happened to of captured the bears with their mouths open and teeth exposed. I then labeled each image file to include the word teeth, so the images would be easy to retrieve and share with the zoo staff. These images assist the zoo staff with a better understanding of the growth and dental health of the bears over a period of time.
I thought it might be interesting to share some close up photographs of the paws of a two year old Kodiak bear.
The paws are huge and have unbelievable strength and agility!
As I continue to observe the Kodiak bear cubs, I’m astonished by the cubs ability to manipulate the claws with the same agility as a human. The hump on the Kodiak bear is made of muscle which developed presumably for imparting force in digging and helps with when constructing dens.
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