I
apologize for not writing anything sooner. In September last year I thought it
would be a matter of weeks before I could make a short video on Bonnie and the
girls enjoying the forest in the large enclosure, but it’s been almost five
months now since Bonnie’s been with Desi and Hilda and I still don’t have any
footage of Bonnie in the forest, let alone of him playing with the girls in the
trees.
Bonnie
is the male sun bear who arrived at the OFI care centre in June 2014 and who
was introduced to Desi and Hilda on 31st August. The three bears
became friends right away but when Bonnie went into the small enclosure he got
a bad shock on the electric fence and refused to go back in. More than 3 months
were necessary for Bonnie to slowly venture back into the small enclosure and
another month for him to feel comfortable in it.
Now
that Bonnie is confident that nothing is going to happen to him in the small
enclosure he is hesitantly going into the main enclosure. He goes in for a few
seconds at a time, staying close to the door. He sniffs the air, looks around
and comes running back into the cage, even if Desi and Hilda are just a few
feet away as if inviting him to come play with them.
Bonnie
needs time… and my next video update
will thus have to wait. Sorry about that.