bears

When you grow up near the Canadian Rockies, bears are a part of your vernacular but after previewing Disneynature’s new True life Adventure “Bears” last week, I really fell in love with them. The filmmakers follow a year in the life of a new brown bear family in Alaska–from hibernation in the den with impressionable young newborn cubs Scout and Amber–to leaving the “nest” with their mom Skye while experiencing life’s great wonders and joys in their heartwarming journey.  I’ve always viewed bears as the top of the wilderness food chain but this in-depth look at their daily struggle to survive made me deeply empathetic as they navigated avalanches, the bitter cold, predators like Magnus (the dominant alpha male bear) and Chinook (the...