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Category: bear • polar bears • zoos
Posted on: June 15, 2008 10:48 PM, by ableiman
Spent the day at the Brookfield Zoo and was lucky enough to catch a resident polar bear inventing games for himself and doubly lucky my fiancee brought a video cam.
Polar Bear Takes a Dive
Polar Bear Tossing Around His Toy
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Polar Bear Balances Toy on Nose and Paw
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Posted by: Homie Bear | June 16, 2008 1:41 AM
Man, I never get to see the bears at the Minnesota Zoo do anything but practice their napping technique. The Tigers, too, for that matter.
Posted by: Fox1 | June 16, 2008 9:13 AM
Made maybe a little less cute by my suspicion that the bear is pretending that it's a baby seal it's tossing around. :-)
Posted by: Theodosia | June 16, 2008 2:58 PM
Wait, now I'm confused, I thought that WAS the cute part.
Posted by: Fox1 | June 16, 2008 8:17 PM
I just can't get over the feeling when I'm at the zoo it's animal jail. Maybe some of those polar bears should be doing hard time--I don't know. Now for dogs like Lady, I'm for harm reduction, personally. Toad users/abusers aren't hurting anyone.
Posted by: booge | June 16, 2008 10:36 PM
On a more sombre note, David Attenborough once told me that he feels that polar bears really shouldn't be kept in zoos. Apparently, they have a very high probability of going deranged.
Posted by: Ed Yong | June 17, 2008 8:05 PM
Well, if you want to keep them entertained, you can offer them pseudo seals like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWseAzC3vc
Posted by: Dave Hone | June 18, 2008 5:59 AM
In last video, where it climbs out, I was vividly reminded of a very large man I saw climing out of a swimming pool last week.
Posted by: Zelly | June 18, 2008 9:27 AM
On a more sombre note, David Attenborough once told me that he feels that polar bears really shouldn't be kept in zoos. Apparently, they have a very high probability of going deranged.
Posted by: zayıflama shop | June 21, 2008 1:27 PM
Wait, now I'm confused, I thought that WAS the cute part.
Posted by: ADSL Başvuru | June 21, 2008 1:36 PM