Growing up Grizzly: A Tale of Two Orphans

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Meet Max, an orphaned bear cub plucked from the Alaskan wild and headed to a Montana sanctuary. And meet Pepper, a five-month-old from Grand Teton National Park that has suddenly been separated from his mother. They are two baby grizzlies on two very different paths to adulthood. While Pepper is left to fend for himself in the wild, Max will enjoy safety but will be in captivity for the rest of his life. Follow Montana naturalist and filmmaker Casey Anderson as he raises one orphaned grizzly while tracking the other over the course of a year. Montana native and wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson runs a sanctuary for grizzlies in need but has been reluctant to take in new cubs, believing they're better off in the wild. He must break his own rules however when he meets an orphaned cub in Alaska about to be euthanized. Just as Casey prepares "Max" for a life in captivity, another grizzly cub, "Pepper," becomes separated from his mother in the Grand Tetons. For over a year, we follow these two orphans on two very different paths to see which has the better chance of growing up grizzly?