The bear seems in no rush to leave the comforts of its cottonwood tree. Photo / NPS
Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, or so the calendar tells us. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and bears are emerging from their long winter's nap.
But not all bears. One particular bear in Glacier National Park has spent at least two weeks engaging in what appears to
be a very groggy process of deciding whether to wake up. If a bear had a snooze button, this one would have walloped it with its paw dozens of times.
We know this because the northern Montana park trained two live cams on the black bear's den — a cozy-looking hole more than 16m up the trunk of a tall cottonwood tree.
The park says it first spotted the bear in the hole, a common denning spot, on March 23. Footage since then has captured the bear sleepily gazing into the distance, licking snow off the tree and — very occasionally — stepping out onto a tree limb before returning to its snug shelter.
This is not an action movie. In pace, it resembles Norway's Slow TV, which broadcasts events like a 134-hour boat voyage and 12 hours of nonstop knitting.
