believe it or not, next up, i m going to see a defrosting bear. hello! welcome aboard! thank you. this is the draper specimen preparation lab. it is an extension of the natural history museum itself. today, we re going to be working on a grizzly bear. what are we doing here? the most fun part ever, said no one. we are going to remove the organs. i ve done really well up until this point but i think i might have to walk away in a moment. as well as bears, corey and his team of volunteers preserve birds, wildcats and thousands more species. an average specimen that comes into the museum, we collect data with it. so, we collect a gps co ordinate, and that gives us the exact location at the time of collection. it gives us things like habitat information, things like elevation and so, as things shift and change, these become snapshots in time. yellowstone, the greater
bears can be rehomed here and around a0 are put down each year. so, in the case of the eight grizzly bears that live here at the grizzly & wolf discovery center, we ve provided an alternative but maybe, you know, even more importantly, we give visitors to the area a chance to learn from their stories. even though they re still getting into conflict with people over food, the population is much more stable than it has been in the past and a lot of that is because of what we ve learned about how important it is in bear country to be careful with our food and techniques we have, like bear resistant containers for securing that food. so, i ve seen a live bear, i ve seen a remote controlled bear. believe it or not, next up, i m going to see a defrosting bear. hello! welcome aboard! thank you. this is the draper specimen preparation lab. it is an extension of the natural history museum itself. today, we re going to be working on a grizzly bear. what are we doing here? the most fun part