Among the Bears by Benjamin Kilham and Ed Gray, Henry Holt, $26, ISBN 0805069194
CONFRONTED by two hungry black bears, most people would immediately know what steps to take: long, fast ones. But the bears that arrived on Ben Kilham’s doorstep in 1993 were orphaned cubs weighing a couple of kilos each. So he set out to raise the pair and prepare them for release back into the wild.
Bears have always provoked both fear and fascination but there have been few serious attempts to study their behaviour. Following wild bears in their natural range is difficult, and, Kilham’s experiment…
