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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.