<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Happy Moon Bear Monday! </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Spring time at our sanctuary in Tam Dao, Vietnam and it is currently dotted with these beautiful “rice flowers” falling from a tree towering high above the enclosures. This shot was taken last week by Education Assistant, Quyen. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You might expect that the next frame was the bear chomping or trampling this exquisite bloom but instead, after an appreciative sniff, he simply</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"> placed it back on the grass as he followed his nose to the next interesting smell.</span></font><br>
<br><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">Our staff work hard to provide enrichment for all the bears and sometimes, bears like Taurus, in this beautiful environment, find it for themselves.</span></font><br>
<br><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">As a side note - the tree was once a key landmark in the boundary dispute that threatened the future of the sanctuary. Fitting then that it now provides such beauty and inspiring moments as this one. </span></font><br>
<br><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">Happy Moon Bear Monday everyone. Be inspired by Taurus, remember to find time this week to smell the flowers<img src="cid:B0C@goomoji.gmail" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" goomoji="B0C"></span></font><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"></span></font></span><div>
<div><br></div>-- <br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre cols="72"><font face="courier new, monospace" style="white-space:pre-wrap" color="#666666">Trinh Thuy. Phan M.A.
Communications Officer Vietnam
Animals Asia Foundation
Tel: (+84-4) 392 89264
Mob: (+84) 914502998</font></pre><pre cols="72"><pre cols="72"><font face="courier new, monospace" style="white-space:pre-wrap" color="#666666"><a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/" target="_blank">www.animalsasia.org</a></font></pre>
<pre cols="72"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#666666"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Animals Asia's Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre, Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Province</span></font></pre>
<pre cols="72"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#666666" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Trung tâm Cứu hộ Gấu Việt Nam. Tham gia với chúng tôi trên Facebook: </font><font color="#0000ee" face="courier new, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><u><a href="http://www.facebook.com/animalsasiavietnam" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/animalsasiavietnam</a></u></span></font><font color="#888888" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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