yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Sleepy Cubs | America's National Parks


less than 1m read
·Nov 11, 2024

A black bear and her cubs – a typical litter of three. For 5 months, she hasn't stirred. Even as their mother slumbered, the cubs nursed on a rich diet of super fatty milk. Over the winter, her own weight dropped up to 1/3. How she survived still stumps us.

During hibernation, her heart rate fell to just 8 beats per minute, and somehow she turned much of her bodily waste into protein. In the coming months, she must fatten up on what the forest provides. The survival of the fragile cubs depends on their mother; her survival depends on the Smokies.

After weeks confined to a cubby hole, new life makes its debut in the park. Black bears are born climbers with strong claws; even a bear cub negotiates the trunk like a power lineman. Their debut draws attention.

“Our mom must stay alert. Coyotes will prey on the cubs, so will bobcats. At night, the treetops offer refuge from predators that can't climb. In daylight, on the ground, the cubs are vulnerable, so mom won't let them wander. For the next 18 months, they'll shadow their mother, their instructor and protector, within a park that safeguards them from another enemy: man.”

More Articles

View All
Interpreting plotted points
The graph below shows the relationship between hours of exercise and hours of screen time for a group of five friends on Thursday. So if we look over here, we can see that here on this horizontal axis, when we’re going from the left to right, it says hour…
Reshma Shetty, Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks at the Female Founders Conference
Thank you all for being here today. It’s a real honor to be around such an amazing group of women. I’d like to thank Sharon and Kat for inviting me to come talk to you all. It’s a real honor. As Jessica said, I’m a co-founder of a company called Topeka Bi…
Understanding hourly vs salary pay conversion | Employment | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy
Let’s say that you just got two job offers, and these jobs are pretty identical to each other except for how they gave you the offer. So, the first job, they tell you that it is $30 an hour, and they’re going to expect you to be there 40 hours per week. T…
The FED Just Popped The Market Bubble
What’s up guys, it’s Graham here. So first of all, I am shocked that more people aren’t talking about this, because we are about to face the worst U.S. debt crisis in history. Instead of addressing the problem head-on, we’re putting up statues of Walter W…
The Secret History of Grillz | Explorer
Deep in an underwater cave on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a team of archaeologists made a groundbreaking discovery: the skulls of ancient Maya, who ruled over a 4,000-year-old civilization. Perhaps most surprising was that these skulls reveal the ancient …
Alexander the Great takes power | World History | Khan Academy
Going to talk about one of the most famous conquerors in all of human history, and that is Alexander the Great. But before talking about all of the things that he conquered, let’s think about how he got started out, and in particular, how he’s able to con…