Brown bear Gemini wins the Tongass Helicopter Mom award
Gemini, a brown bear at Anan Creek in the Tongass National Forest, received the forest's Helicopter Mom award.
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A brown bear named Gemini received the Tongass National Forest's Helicopter Mom award, Popular Science reported. She is known from Anan Creek, in the forest of southeast Alaska.
The award is a name the forest put on one bear's mothering. It is not a medical finding and not a ranking of every sow on the creek. The people who watch Anan Creek are the ones who picked her out.
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Anan Creek is a place in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska where people watch brown bears. One of those bears is named Gemini. The forest gave her an award called Helicopter Mom. The name is a joke about a parent who stays very close to her children. For a bear, it means Gemini has been looking after her cubs in a way the people who watch that creek noticed. The award is a title for one bear, not a prize she can spend, and not a promise about every mother bear on the creek. Wrangell is the community nearest that part of the forest.
- What might a bear do that would make people call her a careful mother?
- Why do scientists give wild animals names?
- How is watching bears from a distance different from feeding them?
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