Sunday 27/05/12 – This morning we rode to the BC Wildlife park, which is just outside Kamloops. We got to see grizzly and black bears, as well as raccoons, a badger, deer, coyote, wolves, lynxes etc. Adam got to feed an elk, who has a penchant for carrots. He was growing his new set of antlers, so they were covered with fuzzy brown skin and the ranger said if the antler was cut off now, the elk would bleed to death as there is so many blood vessels in the antlers helping them grow. The antlers that fell off last year were hanging on the fence; I didn’t know that they grew a new set every spring! The two grizzly bears were siblings and were only a year old. They were bought to the park as
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