Playful Polar Bear
Friday, 20. November 2009, 05:18:51
Polar bears - or Ursus maritimus in Latin - they're one of my favourite Zoo animals. We call them isbjørne in Danish - which can be translated into Ice bears.
The polar bear is the biggest of bears, an adult male weighs around 350–680 kg (770–1,500 lb), while an adult female is about half that size.
The male was in a very playful mood the day I was there. He had a little piece of bone that it played with:
He stood on the shore and tossed the bone into the water, and then jumped into the water after it
I know the pic is a bit blurry, both because of the movement in the picture, but also because it took me totally by surprise! But it can at least give you an impression of how playful the bear was:
Then he dived and got the bone up, swam around with it, dropped it to the bottom, dived down after it again... Here he's splashing around with the bone on his giant paw:
Then he got back up on the shore, shook the water off himself...
... and started all over again.
The polar bear is the biggest of bears, an adult male weighs around 350–680 kg (770–1,500 lb), while an adult female is about half that size.
The male was in a very playful mood the day I was there. He had a little piece of bone that it played with:
He stood on the shore and tossed the bone into the water, and then jumped into the water after it
I know the pic is a bit blurry, both because of the movement in the picture, but also because it took me totally by surprise! But it can at least give you an impression of how playful the bear was:
Then he dived and got the bone up, swam around with it, dropped it to the bottom, dived down after it again... Here he's splashing around with the bone on his giant paw:
Then he got back up on the shore, shook the water off himself...
... and started all over again.
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