Dyslexic Man Acts as Papa Bear to Cubs

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Most people run from wild bears, but not Ben Kilham. He lives among them and has hand-raised 50 cubs in the past 12 years.

Acting like a bear-parent to abandoned cubs, Kilham actually eats and drinks with them, teaching them exactly how to survive in the wild. The independent wildlife biologist has now successfully raised dozens of black bear cubs in the woods near his home in Lyme, New Hampshire.

"I know what these bears are thinking, I know by their behavior what they're about to do," said Kilham, who stars in "A Man Among Bears," a documentary about his special bond with the animals. "I can predict what they're going to do."

He is one of the few people ever to have such an intimate bond with bears. Timothy Treadwell, known as "the grizzly man," lived among those fierce beasts — and he eventually paid for it with his life. For Kilham, his own special relationship with bears has grown out of a lifelong struggle with a severe learning disability, one that allows him to see the world more like a wild animal, he says.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4408551&page=1

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1. I saw a special on him on NH public tv a year ago.

Interesting.
Even as adults, the bears remembered and loved him.