technically i finished this back in january but forgot to post. oh well. i spent about a year working on them because these are cropped variants of full sheets with info on them.

Qannik! by C.S. Drake on Flickr.

Almost-3-year-old Qannik and a frisbee, before she shoved it into a rock crevice underwater. I love that bear so much. She was found abandoned on an oil slope in Alaska in 2011 - she had been spotted with her mother and a sibling previously. She was supposed to weigh about 75 pounds, but her weight was about 20 pounds (if I remember correctly - she was sooo underweight). She was rehabbed at the Alaska Zoo and then U.S. Fish & Wildlife chose my local zoo to be her permanent home. Every time I see her she is either napping or playing like a maniac. She's super smart, too; when she was less than a year old she figured out how to maneuver a toy beneath a window and stand on it so that she could peer out of it to watch the keepers!

A good face washing starts the day off right! by ucumari on Flickr.