Bear adjusting to freedom after years as ice cream shop draw

· Apr. 17, 2015, 3:38 pm

A female bear that spent nearly two decades as a caged attraction at a Pennsylvania ice cream shop is adjusting to life at a wildlife sanctuary outside Denver.

Wild Animal Sanctuary's executive director tells Friday's York Daily Record that Little Ricki is roaming the 720-acre grasslands and making friends.

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