The Libearty paparazzi caught Fiona taking a sunbath on a sunny late autumn day. Although not in her youth, the eighteen-year-old female bear wasn’t shy about showing off her rounded shape as she prepared for hibernation. She took advantage of the time of day, and when her companions withdrew into the woods, she had the entire glade of the first enclosure to herself.
Like any carefully maintained lady, a little conceited, Fiona chose the sunbathing spot close to the pool. Why move too much if she gets thirsty or too hot? So she was caught by the paparazzi at the beach, scorching her fur on all sides like a pancake in a hot pan.
And here’s some more gossip: It’s rumored in the enclosures that everyone’s going blond this fall, their color naturally washed out by the sun. Fiona wants to be fashionable at any price. First, she raises her head to figure out what direction the sun is coming from and how she should lay down so that her fur bleaches out uniformly. After a few minutes, as if she’s timed it, she turns over, allowing the sun to go to work on her movie-star fur. She doesn’t seem to have worries such as, “What diet to follow?…I should lose some weight!” or “I hope my fur won’t get burned, I don’t want to look like a haystack!…”
