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Grizzly bears
![Two grizzly bears wrestling with a locked cooler](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/10/2023winter-bearing-up-1-198x198.jpg)
![A bear at the Bear Center at Washington State University tries to get into a locked cooler](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/10/2023winter-bear-center-video-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Testing coolers with the WSU Bear Center grizzlies
Chelsea Davis explains how grizzlies at Washington State University are testing “bear-resistant” coolers. She’s the animal care facilities manager at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center.
Read more about the bears and their role in testing coolers.
Video produced by Ted S. Warren/WSU College of Veterinary Medicine
![Grizzlies wander the field at Washington State University Bear Center](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/01/2022spring-been-sleeping-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Who’s been sleeping?
![Bear at WSU Bear Center taking a bath](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/02/2022spring-sleeping-bears-extra-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Bear videos and stories
Watch the the bears at the Washington State University Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center, a one-of-a-kind facility providing information and understanding for bear conservation.
The bears also provide invaluable insight into human health because of their ability to regulate insulin and avoid muscle atrophy during hibernation.
Watch the bears at the WSU Bear Center:
Bear Conservation and Research
Bears digging a den
October enrichment for the bears
A key to human heart disease could lie with hibernating grizzly bears
More photos and videos of the grizzlies at the WSU Bear Center
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