12.2.2023 – Photos by Imbi Taniel and Inari Leiman
The Winter weather in Tallinn has been both green and white. Friida and Raspi definitely prefer the whiter version of the Winter season so they’ve been happy every time it has snowed.
The beauty of the whiteness almost takes a bear’s breath away!
Even the water temperature seems to be very polarbearish!
The snowy background makes Friida look even more beautiful than usual!
Hmm, the white fur isn’t so white compared to the newly fallen snow.
Let me introduce a couple of other inhabitants in the Tallinn Zoo:
The laughing sloth Tupsik goes to the beauty salon before his morning feed. In addition to water treatments (as a rainforest dwelling animal, his fur needs to be constantly damp, so it is sprayed), the zoo keepers also brush his long, sagre coat. Tupsik loves it.
After the ‘spa’ it’s time for a nice meal.
The meerkat made sure the worm was fresh! 🙂
Snow leopard Makalu was happy ‘finding’ a new white world.
Friida is perhaps asking for more snow ….
Raspi is hoping that the ‘pool’ will soon freeze so he can play the ice breaker game. Brrrrr!!!
Raspi sure is an impressive polar bear male. He would be happy to know that his sons are getting as gorgeous as he is – if he could see them now.
Of course, he would be as proud of his lovely daughter Tala who’s an independant and charming young teenager.
A prophile of a proud polar bear
This video shows how Raspi is playing like a little cubbie.
The Tallin Zoo has more than 350 species inclusive 47 threatened species. The zoo is open every day – 365 days a year!
Mr Raspi welcomes you, too!
Dear Mervi,
are Imbi Taniel and Inari Leiman new reporters or did you find the photos on the internet?
Raspi is a beautiful and still playful bear as the video shows. I wonder though why you don’t see him together with Friieda in the enclosure, because now is actually mating season or do you want to spare Friida another breeding with the current overpopulation of cubs in the zoos? That would also be wise, when I think of Novosibirsk….
Beautiful and impressive photo can be seen and again great comments from you.
The other zoo inhabitants are obviously feeling well too – with and without snow.
Thank you very much and best regards!
Britta-Gudrun
Thank you very much dear Mervi, Imbi and Inari.
Best wishes to Raspi, Friida and the other animals in Tallinn Zoo.
Dear Imbi, Inari and Mervi!
It’s always special to be able to watch zoo polar bears in the snow. You wish it on them so much! I’m happy for Frieda and Raspi that the climate conditions were right this winter, at least temporarily. They look great in the snow. Thank you for these beautiful portraits!
I would also appreciate it if they didn’t have any new offspring in the near future, as there are still many cubs from previous years waiting for an adequate new home.
Thank you also for the beautiful pictures of other zoo residents in Tallinn! The smiling sloth was amazingly active and the snow leopard is beautiful, but somehow the little meerkat is my favourite.
By the way, speaking of pictures from Tallinn, I would also be interested to know how the black rhinos Kibibi and Kigoma are doing. I really liked the black rhinos at Berlin Zoo and am sad that the very successful breeding has ended.
Kibibi came to Tallinn from Krefeld in 2013 and Kigoma, who I knew as a young animal, came from Berlin Zoo also in 2013 and they both became parents to female rhino Kigeta in 2017. Unfortunately, almost nothing has been heard about it here…
Hugs
Anke