Product Details

• Actors: Frida Waara
• Directors: Dr. Terry DeBruyn:Buck LeVasseur, Frida Waara
• Format: Animated, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2000
• Run Time: 22 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0964390817
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #698,528 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Walking with Bears, July 9, 2000

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Jean E. Dohms - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking With Bears [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In the video, Walking With Bears, Dr. Terry DeBruyn, PHD, takes us with him as he studies the life of a sow black bear, "Carmen," from the time the biologists attach a telemetry collar on her during her winter sleep, through a year of her life in the woods with her cubs. With patience, Terry gains Carmen's trust, and follows the family through their daily routine. I especially enjoyed the footage of the cubs being removed from from their winter den, being examined and weighed in the early spring, and their behavior later in the woods as they nurse, climb trees, and learn what is good to eat. This film was produced for school children, and introduces them to the words used by environmental biologists through a cartoon character of a small bear with a young girls voice. While Carmine eat herbs, unearths ants, and examines a small dead fawn, an explanation of herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore are defined. Terry DeBruyn, and Buck LeVasseur, an outdoor video journalist from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, add explanatory dialog. I got my copy after viewing the film during a Public Television Fund Drive. I know my grandchildren will not only be fascinated, but will learn much about black bear and the northwoods.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My classroom, July 14, 2000

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Maxine Henry (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking With Bears [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I used this video in my sixth grade classroom as supplimentary material for our mammal tracking unit. It has good environmental vocabulary for easy note taking. Students also see a field biologist at work for a real-life connection between the classroom and career choices.