Crazy bear why isn't it asleep?

[G-Man]

So last evening had a 300lbs or so bear out in the field by my house, temp was 19 degrees, went down to -2 last night. what the heck was it thinking? should of been sleeping!!

[josephmrtn]

man he is up late!!!!!

[growalot]

I read an article in the ODN a few weeks ago that had a picture of a bear in ... what amounted to as a giant ground nest....It talked about how bear are not always burrowing into dens to hibernate but making these "nest"....I thought that a tad unusual as well ...

But our son has had the bear walking around his house a good part of this winter...one of his dogs slipped a collar before work...he warned me about the bear when I went to let her back in the house...prints were in the snow all behind his house...

[Pygmy]

It was Yogi...

He was looking for a PIC-A-NIC basket....

[growalot]

I looked for that article and could not find it...but...found this..

Many dens have a sleeping areas that are higher than the entrance so an igloo-like pocket of air is generated that keeps the bear warm. About one in fifteen black bears don't bother to build a den. Sows even give birth in the open and she and her cubs sleep through the winter while the snow piles up on top of them.

[cynthiafu]

he was sleep walking