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2017 Annual Fall Forum Presents: Ben Kilham

Categories Past Events Tags Fall Forum Posted on September 5, 2017August 20, 2021
Ben nose to nose with a bear

This event was held September 29, 2017 at Grantham Town Hall.

“The Social Black Bear:  What Bears Have Taught Me About Being Human”

Black bears, thought to be solitary, have a different type of social behavior that possibly parallels early human behavior. They show evidence of reciprocal altruism, matri-linear hierarchy, and a mix of intentional and emotional communication. Bears can live for as many as forty years, which allows them long-term benefits from forming relationships with fellow cooperators.

Ben Kilham, Ph.D is a wildlife biologist based in Lyme, New Hampshire. His love of and devotion to black bears has enabled him to study their habits and interact with them for more than two decades. He, his wife Debra and sister Phoebe have accepted orphaned bear cubs into their home and enabled them to successfully return to the wild. Ben has been the focus of several news articles and documentaries, including National Geographic’s A Man Among Bears and Animal Planet’s Papa Bear. He is also author of the books Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild and Out on a Limb: Origins of Intuition and Intelligence.

  • Ben Kilham films Yoda eating ants at the base of a dead blasam fir tree in the woods surrounding Lyme, N.H.
    Lyme, NH – 7-10-03 -Ben Kilham films Yoda eating ants at the base of a dead blasam fir tree in the woods surrounding Lyme, N.H.

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