Grizzly Bears OKC Zoo

This video was taken on our most recent outing to visit the newly opened Oklahoma Trails at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Our zoo is one of the best in the country and we are proud to be Zoo Friends and go visit every chance we get.

The weather was beautiful, and the highlight was seeing our grizzly bears, Will (named for Will Rogers) and Wiley (named for Wiley Post) enjoy their new area. The two were rescued as cubs in Alaska and have been raised at the zoo.

The red water is because A) We live in Oklahoma, and B) We had record rainfalls the few days prior causing quite the stiru up of red soil, which 3) Equals red water.

The following is an excerpt from a news release about the Oklahoma Trails and the grizzly bears.

"Creating a cause"

The real reason the exhibit was built, Aucone said, was to create a larger home for the zoo's two grizzly bears.

The 4-year-old brown-colored bears, named Will and Wiley after Will Rogers and Wiley Post, are a crowd favorite. A hunter rescued the two bears from Alaska after he shot their mother, not knowing that she had cubs, Aucone said.

Holden Stephens, 7, sat cross-legged, clutching the metal fence that kept the playful bears away from him.

He said he wished the bears would climb a tree — but what they were up to was fine by him. One walked up to the moat at the front of the exhibit, stuck his nose in the air and twitched it.

"See look," he said. "And I like him smelling."

Aucone said the bears were swimming in the moat earlier in the day. They also spend a lot of their time digging in the red dirt of their hill-side home. Dead trees are strapped to the ground for them to climb on. If they weren't fastened down, Aucone said, the bears would pick the hefty trees up and toss them into the water.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• grizzly
• bear
• playing
• oklahoma
• city
• zoo
• trails

[LoriandMike]

I think they were here before us. This is really neat story of a great rescue of these two bears when they were cubs in Alaska.

[ftjax]

are there any parasites in these bears ?

[MichaelMyers87]

Kodiak, both are similarly built so whichevers bigger wins most the time. Grizzlys can get 1300 lbs in the wild and Kodiaks can get 1700 lbs in the wild tho both can get bigger if in captivity.

[Krazyeyeskilla]

who would win between a kodiak bear and a grizzly bear?

they are both quite ferocious and cantankerous

[jwroberts3]

Great video! Hope to see more from the OKC Zoo

I will post some bear clips shortly.

JWR

[puppyluvr2828]

sadly i haven't been able to go to the Oklahoma Trails yet. Every chance i get to go, i get sick, or it starts raining or something! (this rain is getting very anoying! lol) i've seen those bears alot. They're very interesting to watch!

[sandymonitor]

I run an exotic animal sanctuary and have 3 american black bears, 2 asian black bears, and a syrian grizzly.

[chronikkondition]

Good video,

My wife and I went to the Okc Zoo last weekend and we didnt go through the new "trails" exhibit. Thnak for the post.

[WDisneyWforMe]

Great video.....far cry from how miserable they were in their old habitat. Yea for the OKC Zoo!!

[bobthemans]

nice video