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By: DoxieMom19 (offline) on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 06:05 PM EST  
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If you are having trouble getting a live feed please be patient and persistent! Some have found that hitting refresh twice in a row and then play works. Lily is currently huddled protectively over her cub. We'll see this position a lot in the coming days. When Lily moves you are apt to hear the cub cry -- because it's cold or hungry.


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By: DoxieMom19 (offline) on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 06:52 PM EST  
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Yup, that's a coyote you hear on the den cam feed.


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By: terrytvgal (offline) on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 09:13 PM EST  
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Over the last 1/2 hour or so Lily has been moving around a bit and the cub could be heard briefly on several occasions. Shh


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By: jwnix (offline) on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 10:36 PM EST  
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edited update:

Update – January 22, 9:47 PM ET

The long wait is over. When labor started at 1:59 PM CST yesterday, we thought it would be short. Cubs average only ¾ pound and 9 inches long. How long could that take? Along with thousands of you, we spent a sleepless night as bouts of labor continued for 21 hours and 39 minutes. Finally, at 11:38 AM CST, Lily made some contortions, looked under her, and began the intense sweet motherly grunts that bears only make to cubs. Could it be? A loud squawk from the cub made it definite. Lily tucked her head under her chest to care for the cub and breathe on it.

A few minutes later there were more contortions. This time it was only the afterbirth. As Lily rose up to eat the afterbirth, she let cold air under her, making the cub squawk and making people wonder if it was a second cub. First litters are typically 1 or 2. We listened long and hard today but never heard two cub voices.

Now at 8:23 PM, we think Lily is done. She had a single cub. She is now breathing a relaxed three breaths per minute instead of the four per minute prior to birth. We don't see her muscles contracting like in the past couple days. Her restlessness is gone. However, just after 5 PM, Lily made a few motions reminiscent of last night. If another cub is coming, which we doubt, we’ll need the help of your eyes and ears to determine when it arrives. We can’t stay up another night.

Sharing these discoveries with thousands of people like this is a highlight of our careers. It’s a purpose of the North American Bear Center. 50 exhibits of Lily and other wild bears show some of the most interesting behaviors we have witnessed. Snippets of some of those are on bear.org.
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We're looking forward to watching how Lily cares for this cub as it grows to as much as 9 pounds by mid-April—nearly twice the weight of cubs in multi-cub litters. We have never studied the relationship between a mother and a single cub to see how it might differ from the relationships between mothers and multiple cubs. We're looking forward to seeing how that relationship develops.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, North American Bear Center


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By: jwnix (offline) on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 11:26 PM EST  
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10:22......25
cub is complaining about something.....small squawks.... female is wiggling around a bit.....

10:29 some more squawking, .... bear is moving/undulating. not sure which part of her we are seeing yet. think head is down to the left, and that is educated guess at this point

10:31 quiet. bear not moving so much now. light snow

11:00 bear and cub quiet.....

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By: CAL04 (offline) on Saturday, January 23 2010 @ 09:18 AM EST  
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This Little Cub has quite the set of bagpipes. Lily 2 was so loud during an early morning feeding that it startled me. I couldn't imagine that much sound from something so tiny had I not heard it.


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By: jkr (offline) on Saturday, January 23 2010 @ 09:48 AM EST  
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6:45 a.m.
Wee one is making her/himself heard this morning.
Lily is squirming around and the little one is not happy at all.

6:46 a.m.
Can now hear the little one feeding and it looks as if Lily has gone back to sleep.


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By: IrishEyes (offline) on Saturday, January 23 2010 @ 10:44 AM EST  
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I have been watching Lily and her cub . This is so exciting , the little cub has some set of lungs !! Crying and finally got settled and nursing now . Lily was moving and trying to adjust herself to make the cub satisfied .

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