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\"bears\"<\/a>The first week I was volunteering in Thailand I was lucky enough to volunteer with the wildlife group; this includes, but is not limited to, gibbons, bears, otters, deer, hogs, iguanas, and many others that my brain cant comprehend. There were so many to take care of that there were roughly 30-40 volunteers just feeding them daily. It took most of our time to prepare their food and to feed them than it took us to do anything else throughout the day.<\/p>\n

My favorite wildlife that I got to work with were the bears. They had long claws that hurt you to just look at. The bears looked as if you could just cuddle them forever but you knew better than to cuddle an animal that eats its food in one bite. We would start off by preparing their breakfast which consisted of bananas, pineapple, mangos, and whatever other yummy fruits we could provide them with. Their mahout would coax them into the enclosure next door and close the gate so we were out of reach of their hungry claws. Then, we would go into their den and drop the fruit on the ground in each corner of the room. We would open the gate that separated them from their delicious meal and joyfully watch them stuff their cute, fuzzy faces.<\/p>\n

One time our mahout was nice enough to let us climb the ladder to the top of the enclosure to watch them eat from above. To see these bears in complete satisfaction as the watermelon juice ran down their faces was just beautiful. I’ve never seen a bear up close before, let alone eat! It made me want to cuddle them even more. After we stared at them for quite some time, we then cleaned their enclosure. I quickly learned that bears make large messes in a very short amount of time! It took us the rest of the day to clean up after these cute, yet scary, creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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