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The bears briefly gained worldwide notoriety after a grey wolf was introduced to their habitat in 2005 and was killed by one of them while trying to steal a bone.
Grinder cooling off at Grouse Mountain’s Refuge for Endangered Wildlife. NICK PROCAYLO/PNG Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /PNG
Grinder, despite being the smaller of the two, will probably be the one who blows out the candles on the birthday cake. He is the alpha in the relationship — he’s the extrovert and is always the one to try something first, including emerging from hibernation.
In fact, Macquisten jokes that he offers 1,000-to-1 odds against Coola emerging first from the snow, and no one has taken up the bet, not even for a loony.