Few people have known bears as intimately as Else Poulsen has. This remarkable book reveals the many insights about bears and their emotional lives that she has gained through her years of work with them. Always approaching each bear with the same two questions in mind "Who are you?" and "What can I do for you?" Poulsen has shared in the joy of a polar bear discovering soil under her paws for the first time in 20 years and felt the pride of a cub learning to crack nuts with her molars. She has also felt the hateful stare of one bear that she could not befriend, and she has grieved in the abject horror of captivity for a sun bear in Indonesia. Featuring photographs from Poulsen's personal collection,Smiling Bearsprovides an enlightening and moving portrait of bears in all their richness and complexity.
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Who Are You and What Can I Do for You? | |
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| Smiling Bears: Bears Do Things for Bear Reasons | |
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| Three Rocky Mountain Grizzlies: From the Wild to Captivity | |
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| Sex and the Single Grizzly: Skoki Moves In | |
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| A Pacing Polar Bear: Snowball's Inner Demon | |
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| Polar Bear on Prozac: Snowball Gets Her Life Back | |
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| Conversations with a Polar Bear: Misty Asks for Stuff | |
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| Being a Spectacled Bear: Melanka and Nicholas | |
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| Raising Miggy-Raising Me: Learning Lessons from a Cub | |
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| Rehabilitating Barle: From Circus Bear to Polar Bear | |
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| Barle, Triton, and Talini: Rehabilitation Comes Full Circle | |
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| Epilogue: What Bears Need-You and Me | |
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| Notes | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |
Else Poulsenholds a B.SC. degree in biological sciences. She has worked at the Calgary and Detroit zoos and is known internationally in the zoo and animal welfare community for her work with captive bear husbandry and rehabilitation. She has taught at conferences and workshops around the world and won the Zookeeper Excellence Award for bear research from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 2000. She currently lives in southern Ontario and works with zoos and other animal welfare organizations as an animal behavior specialist. Stephen Herrerois a Professor of Environmental Science and Biology at the University of Calgary. He is recognized throughout the world as a leading authority on bear ecology, behaviour, and attacks. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Else Poulsenholds a B.SC. degree in biological sciences. She has worked at the Calgary and Detroit zoos and is known internationally in the zoo and animal welfare community for her work with captive bear husbandry and rehabilitation. She has taught at conferences and workshops around the world and won the Zookeeper Excellence Award for bear research from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 2000. She currently lives in southern Ontario and works with zoos and other animal welfare organizations as an animal behavior specialist. Stephen Herrerois a Professor of Environmental Science and Biology at the University of Calgary. He is recognized throughout the world as a leading authority on bear ecology, behaviour, and attacks. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
