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  • The Washington State University Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash. can currently house up to ten bears in its series of cinderblock dens, according to Dr. Charles Robbins who founded the center 24 years ago. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • The Washington State University Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash. can currently house up to ten bears in its series of cinderblock dens, according to Dr. Charles Robbins who founded the center 24 years ago. The dens also have access to an outisde pen for the grizzlies to move freely from one to the other when the sections are not being cleaned by the center's student employed staff. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Graduate students in the veterinary program at Washington State University conduct cognitive bias tasks with a grizzly at the Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash. on Friday, October 15.  ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • During cognitive bias testing that graduate students perform with grizzlies at Washington State University's Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash., apples are a primary incentive for the bears to complete necessary tasks and testing...(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Heidi Keen, a doctoral student at Washington State University pushes the clicker when John -- a grizzly bear -- touches the right color cue with his paw during a congitive bias task test at the Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash.. Keen's research evaluates the psychological impact of environmental enrichment for grizzly bears. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Heidi Keen, a doctoral student at Washington State University pushes the clicker and rewards John -- a grizzly bear -- with a piece of apple when he touches the right color cue with his paw during a cognitive bias task test at the Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash.. Keen's research evaluates the psychological impact of environmental enrichment for grizzly bears. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Grizzly bears at Washington State University's Bear Research Center wait outside while their cinderblock den is cleaned and meal left. Unless the bears are hibernating, the faculty and student staff at the facility keep a fence between themselves and the bears at all times...(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Dr. Charles Robbins, director of Washington State University's Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash., feeds fish oil to a bear in preparation for hibernation. The fish oil provides added nutrients that will help the bears survive through the winter. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Dr. Charles Robbins, director of Washington State University's Bear Research Center in Pullman, Wash., feeds fish oil to a bear in preparation for hibernation. The fish oil provides added nutrients that will help the bears survive through the winter. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Bears are allowed to roam and forage in the 2.2 acre exercise yard connected to the Bear Research Center on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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  • A visitor outside of the Bear Research Center on Washington State University's campus in Pullman, Wash. takes a photograph of a grizzly bear through the double chain-link fence. ..(Matt Mills McKnight for The Wall Street Journal)
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