The Social Black Bear: Ben Kilham comes to Brandon!

Please join The Staying Connected Initiative in welcoming Wildlife Biologist Ben Kilham to present his work with orphaned bear cubs in Brandon!  Here are the details:

The Social Black Bear:

What Bears Have Taught Me About Being Human

 

Speaker:  Ben Kilham, Independent Wildlife Biologist

Ben Kilham lets one of “his” bears, Yoda, smell his breath while filming her in the woods near his home.

Date:  Friday, November 30, 7:00pm

Location:  Otter Valley High School Auditorium

(2997 Route 7, Brandon)

All are welcome.  A free event.

With questions, please contact Monica Erhart at 431-5061.

Black bears, thought to be solitary, have a different type of social behavior that possibly parallels early human behavior. They show evidence of reciprocal altruism, food sharing, and early group formation of unrelated individuals. Bears can live for as many as forty years, which allows them long-term benefits from forming relationships with fellow cooperators.

Ben Kilham is a wildlife biologist based in Lyme, New Hampshire. His love of and devotion to black bears has enabled him to study their habits and interact with them for more than two decades. He, his wife Debra and sister Phoebe have accepted orphaned bear cubs into their facility and enabled them to successfully return to the wild. Ben has been the focus of several news articles and documentaries, including National Geographic’s A Man Among Bears and Animal Planet’s Papa Bear. He is also co- author of the book Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild.  Learn more about Ben Kilham at his website, www.benkilham.com.

Check out Ben Kilham’s book, Among the Bears.

Hosted and with a brief introduction about a local wildlife corridor by The Staying Connected Initiative.  Co-sponsored by the Hawk Hill Committee.