A Flat-Face Den is the bear term for a house or any place that a human lives in. Flat-face dens can be dangerous for bears, since there are humans and sometimes dogs inside.
History[]
In The Original Series arc[]
The Quest Begins[]
Great Bear Lake[]
- Lusa, Toklo and Ujurak go to flat-face dens to look for food. Lusa finds some and narrowly avoids a dog, but Toklo and Ujurak refuse to eat the flat-face food. At Great Bear Lake, Miki tells Lusa that his mother and father went into a flat-face den looking for food, but they never came out.
Smoke Mountain[]
- The bears have to go near the Flat-Face Dens to find food. Taqqiq is attacked by dogs, but Toklo saves him.
The Last Wilderness[]
Fire in the Sky[]
- Lusa and several other animals are being kept in a special flat-face den so that they can recover from being stranded in oil and be released.
Spirits in the Stars[]
- Human-Ujurak goes into an igloo Flat-Face Dens. He borrows clothes, eats some cooked seal meat, and he goes into Tulugaq's igloo.
- As ravens, they see the effect that the oil rig is having on Star Island. Tulugaq then dies.
In the Return to the Wild arc[]
Island of Shadows[]
- The bears encounter some flat-face dens and they find food.
The Melting Sea[]
- Lusa goes off in the night to some Flat-Face Dens. She tries to find some food for the bears, only to be attacked and injured by dogs. She is saved by Ujurak in the form of a dog.