grizzer – Nov 5, 2010 12:00 AM

There was some dominance aggression between Grizzer and Denali on Wednesday night. We watched the surveillance video from the Retired Cameras, and it appears the activity started right after the Curator left for the evening, around 6:05 pm. Grizzer is a tolerant animal, but he can only take so much. Denali is young and it is natural for him to test until he sees limits. Grizzer may have shown Denali these limits, but it may take a constant reminder for this to settle. At this point, Grizzer is on antibiotics (so is Denali, even though his bite was minimal), and Grizzer gets an anti-inflammatory to keep him up and moving around. We don't want Grizzer to show too much weakness and give Denali any unfair advantage.