18.3.2021 – Source: Pernilla Thalin, Photos and video by Orsa Predator Center
Now our polar bear baby has reached the age of 3,5 months and it has started to take longer excursions in the enclosure with mama Ewa.
What a cheeky little rascal 🙂
The cub has gained lots of weight and has even began to ‘quality control’ the food that the adult polar bears get.
The baby bear has now enough power to manage the deep snow banks and it’s been moving even in the big enclosure (two hectares – one hectare contains about 2.47 acres ) and not nonly in the smaller enclosures near the den.
The Spring seems to be coming fast to Orsa and the snow is melting rapidly which makes it easier for the cubbie to move around.
During the weekend many visitors were delighted to see the baby bear for the first time in the big enclosure. The polar bear fans have been waiting for such a long time for a cub in Orsa and now their dream has come true!
Some facts
The polar bears in the Orsa Predator Center are a part of the very important conservative project by EAZA. Keeping polar bears we have an unique possibility to educate, inform and hopefully inspire people to learn more about these wonderful animals and how to protect this threatened species.
Our park has kept polar bears since 2009 when Ewa from the Ouwehands Zoo, Netherlands, and Wilbär from the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany, came to us. Another female, Hope, came in 2018 from the Marineland Antibes in France.
Within the polar bear EEP there are 153 polar bears in 59 zoos in Europe. Totally there are 282 polar bears in the zoos world wide. 24 cubs were born in 2019 within the polar bear EEP – only 13 of them survived.
Winter fun with mama
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