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Get Bear Aware at the Houston Zoo!
Bear Awareness Day 2009 Saturday, September 26, 2009
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During Bear Awareness Day, our zookeepers will offer camping tips during “Good Camper/Bad Camper Theatre” presentations with dramatic assistance from our spectacled bears. In humorous skits, keepers will demonstrate how to make your campsite “bear proof.” And if you’d like to know what bears eat, then visit our booth filled with “beary” yummy treats!
Representatives from Texas Parks and Wildlife, Big Thicket National Preserve, the Texas Forest Service and the HSPCA will be on-hand with informational booths to speak with Zoo guests and answer your questions.
Bear Awareness Day is designed to educate the public about the integral role that bears play in nature, as well as the importance of respecting biological diversity. There are eight species of bears around the world. Here in North America we are fortunate to have three of them: polar bear (Ursus maritimus); grizzly (brown) bear (Ursus arctos); and the American black bear (Ursus americanus).
Representatives from Texas Parks and Wildlife, Big Thicket National Preserve, the Texas Forest Service and the HSPCA will be on-hand with informational booths to speak with Zoo guests and answer your questions.
Bear Awareness Day is designed to educate the public about the integral role that bears play in nature, as well as the importance of respecting biological diversity. There are eight species of bears around the world. Here in North America we are fortunate to have three of them: polar bear (Ursus maritimus); grizzly (brown) bear (Ursus arctos); and the American black bear (Ursus americanus).
Activities:
- Carnivore Keeper Presentations:
10:30am - Grizzly Bear Exhibit
1:30pm - Andean Bear Exhibit
- Pine Cone craft activity
- Raffle drawing featuring works of art by the Houston Zoo bears.
- Bear magnets, bear paw prints and more!
- Do you have what it takes to be a bear? Try our our Bear Maze to find out!
Booths:
- Texas Parks & Wildlife
- East Texas Black Bear Taskforce Committee
- Big Thicket National Preserve
- Houston SPCA
- Texas Forest Service & Smokey the Bear!
Do you have what it takes to be a bear? Try our our Bear Maze to find out!
Funding for the Houston Zoo's Black Bear education and outreach programs generously funded by the Magnolia Charitable Trust and Defenders of Wildlife.
