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During the opening ceremony, acting Mayor John C. Nagel was to speak; he arrived late, and (unknowingly) parked his car behind the bear exhibits. Upon exiting his vehicle, a polar bear, kept in one of the original “barrier-less” enclosures, attempted to lunge at the mayor, nearly crossing the protective moat around its exhibit. Nagel stuck ...
The zoo had previously stated that they were seeking another orphaned polar or brown bear cub to raise alongside Flocke in order to improve her development. [4] On 8 April 2008, Flocke made her first public appearance in the polar bear enclosure that had once been home to Vilma; the adult polar bear had been relocated to another zoo.
In February 1979, young polar bear twins (Nuka, a female, and Siku, a male) joined Binky in his enclosure. [11] [12] Binky got along poorly with Siku, however, so Siku was given to a zoo in Morelia, Mexico, in 1981. [13] [14] As a full-grown bear, Binky weighed 1,200 pounds. [12] He was an aggressive bear; in 1980, he bit off a zoo employee's ...
Nano and Nouri, two polar bears living in a wildlife park in norther England, do their best to escape the heat in the pools which surround their enclosure, and their keepers have tried to make ...
In July 2013, Sea World announced a $1.5 million expansion of Polar Bear Shores to allow Liya and her cub to be displayed separately from Nelson and Hudson. [10] The expanded exhibit, dubbed Polar Pre-School, opened on 21 September 2013. [11] [12] Sculpt Studios was involved in the design of the extension. [13]
Gus, a male polar bear, lived at the zoo from 1988 to 2013, when he had to be euthanized after being diagnosed with an inoperable tumor. [119] Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl, was taken to the zoo in 2010. [120] Flaco escaped when his enclosure was damaged in 2023; [121] he was found dead outside the park in 2024. [122]
Thomas Dörflein in 2007. Thomas Dörflein (13 October 1963 – 22 September 2008) was a German zookeeper at the Berlin Zoological Garden for 26 years. After the baby polar bear Knut was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth in 2006, Dörflein—who cared for both the zoo's wolves and the bears—was assigned as the cub's caretaker.
The Robert R. McCormick Bear Habitat, or "Bear Line", sat directly next to Regenstein African Journey, and housed many carnivores over the years in a number of naturalistic exhibits with trees, water falls, rocky grottos and climbing structures for bears and wolves to use. At the north end is the 266,000-gallon polar bear pool and underwater ...