{"id":202009,"date":"2010-01-19T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:42:18","slug":"momma-bear-will-give-birth-to-cubs-live-on-the-internet-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/202009","title":{"rendered":"Momma Bear Will Give Birth to Cubs Live on the Internet | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5990\" title=\"Black_Bear-27527\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/01\/Black_Bear-27527.jpg\" alt=\"Black_Bear-27527\" width=\"220\" height=\"163\" align=\"left\"\/>&#8220;The internet is not something you just dump something on. It&#8217;s not a big truck. It&#8217;s a series of tubes,&#8221; former Republican Senator Ted Stevens explained back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>And now, thanks to that series of tubes, you can watch a bear give birth. We don&#8217;t know what Stevens would make of this, but here comes the bear-cam.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8462000\/8462296.stm\">BBC<\/a><em> <\/em>reports that for the very first time, a webcam has been placed inside the den belonging to a pregnant wild black bear named Lily, and the &#8220;bear-cam&#8221; will stream live images to the web as she gives birth.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-5988\"><\/span>The bear biologist tracking Lily hopes this live birth will help people overcome their fears and misconceptions about bears. The biologist, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.bearstudy.com\/website\/about-wri\/staff\/lynn-rogers,-ph.d..html\">Lynn Rogers<\/a> of the Wildlife Research Institute in northern Minnesota, told the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8462000\/8462296.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re putting it [the bear-cam] there because there is so much that we don&#8217;t know about what bears do in dens and what behavior they have leading up to giving birth. And how they take care of the cubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lily is three years old, and viewers who see the live birth may see the arrival of three cubs&#8211;that&#8217;s the size of a regular bear litter. This may all seem like quite an invasion of privacy, however Lily is no stranger to the Internet. She&#8217;s already a bit of a star on Facebook. Her &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/?q=Lily+bear&amp;init=quick#\/pages\/Lily-the-Black-Bear\/263755115498?ref=search&amp;sid=740815478.2905568772..1\">Lily The Black Bear<\/a>&#8221; fan page has garnered more than 30,000 fans. She also has her <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LilyBlackBear\">own Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So go forth, dear reader, and &#8220;friend&#8221; the bear. And don&#8217;t forget to tune in to the live birth&#8211;when the cubs will greet their momma and the entire world all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Related Content:<br \/>\nDISCOVER: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/1997\/jun\/bearfare1162\/?searchterm=bear\">Bear Fare<\/a><br \/>\nDISCOVER: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2003\/sep\/featgrizzly\/?searchterm=bear\">The Electronic Grizzly<\/a><br \/>\nDISCOVER: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2006\/jun\/osteobears\/?searchterm=bear\">Osteoporosis and Bears<\/a><br \/>\n80beats: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/01\/12\/facebook-ceo-people-dont-really-want-privacy-nowadays-anyway\/\">Facebook CEO: People Don\u2019t Really Want Privacy Nowadays, Anyway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: <em>Wikipedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gSXKDJpnQAdOR15SOceHOadOgZM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gSXKDJpnQAdOR15SOceHOadOgZM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gSXKDJpnQAdOR15SOceHOadOgZM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gSXKDJpnQAdOR15SOceHOadOgZM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/tCrPgR7Xj1Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The internet is not something you just dump something on. It&#8217;s not a big truck. It&#8217;s a series of tubes,&#8221; former Republican Senator Ted Stevens explained back in 2006. And now, thanks to that series of tubes, you can watch a bear give birth. We don&#8217;t know what Stevens would make of this, but here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}