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December 21, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Three orphaned grizzly bears named Loulou, Koda and Dolly that had participated in a deadly encampment rampage outside Yellowstone National Park in July premiered at a public zoo in Montana on Friday. Several preschoolers viewed the young bears as they poked around an open-air compound that was engulfed by electric fencing of sizable voltage.

Dolly and Loulou ultimately edged their way to obtain a glimpse of the excited children from close. However, the officials at Zoo Montana (ZM) have asserted that Koda was a rather reserved one, who maintained a certain distance from the kids and bent into the heated enclosure the moment someone executed a sudden move.

American wildlife bureaucrats had euthanized these three bears’ Mom subsequent to the Mom directing the bears late at night in July during a vicious assault that liquidated one Michigander male and wounded two others. The cubs had taken part in this gruesome attack in July near Cooke city, which is situated 200 kilometers from the zoo. However, the zoological officials at ZM have defended these cubs by verbalizing that they were only following their Mom’s lead.

The zoo’s caretakers have declared that the bears have illustrated their slight difference from the other animals that flow into incarceration in a zoo. The senior zookeeper, Krystal Whetham, has vocalized that these three bears will use up their upcoming weeks accommodating themselves with the zoo’s precincts. After that, they will be permitted to venture outside during ZM’s regular hours.

Whetham has remarked that the personalities of these bears are evolving. Dolly has proven herself to be a good leader while Loulou is the creator of trouble and Koda is content to observe his sisters frolic. These three bears still are playful and they now possess a healthy stomach and dense fur, which is vastly divergent from their façade earlier when they were transported to ZM. They appeared to be undernourished and messy then. The bears wolf apples, oranges and other fruits and are also allowed to consume ground beef, bones and parched pellets just like canine food. Whetham has declared that the bears in the zoo will never encounter a situation when they have to confront humans menacingly.

Chris Servheen, associated with the American Fish and Wildlife Service, has mentioned that the bears’ earlier demeanor was immaterial in a zoo setting. Servheen had permitted the bears’ disengagement from the wild when there was conjecture that these bears may also be euthanized.