One of my more memorable days durng my Forest Service career was when I held a baby cub bear.  Rogers and others were weighing, monitoring, etc, a den, near Ely,  and I tagged along.  So I was able to hold one before they put it back in the den.  The camera doesn't (can't) depict the SMELL!  Wow... strong musky smell, and those little cubs had amazingly long and sharp claws.

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