Mother bear man; Ben Kilham nurtures cubs back to nature.

"Watch this," Ben Kilham called out as we tromped through the New Hampshire woods one fine summer's day. Ben wandered off the path, hunted around for a few minutes, then got down on all fours. Almost immediately two black bear cubs came barreling out of the bushes toward him. Most people would be rather put off by this, but then few have the relationship with bears Ben does.

He lowered his head and began chomping on Indian cucumber pushing up through the litter on the forest floor. The cubs stuck their noses in his mouth, took a good whiff, hunted around for the same ...

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