This photo shows the bear forest at Ouwehand’s zoo.
Ouwehand’s zoo is near Rhenen, in The Netherlands.
About twenty years ago, they had plans to specialize in animals from Europe and Asia only.
They had zebras, but plans to get them out, as these African animals did not fit then in the new concept.
Part of the Eurasia plans was a forest for brown bears who had been treated badly in, eg, circuses, to rehabilitate them.
That part of the plans is there now.
A big plot of coniferous forest in hilly country is now home to Eurasian brown bears and wolves.
However, the rest of the Eurasia only plans was scrapped later.
Today at Ouwehand’s, you can still see piranhas and rheas from South America.
And Bennett’s wallabies (including an albino) and emus from Australia.
And many African animals.
Not just zebras.
Also lions, giraffe, and impalas.
Also, many stone sculptures from Zimbabwe throughout the zoo; many of them depicting animals.
The building for warthogs (see also here) and meerkats from South Africa was painted in the colourful geometrical mural style of South African Ndbele women artists.
Close to its meerkat relatives were yellow mongoose.
In the aquarium, Plecostomus catfish.
I’ll talk about the polar bear triplets, born recently in the zoo, later.
Polar bears: see also here.
Extermination of wolves in the USA: http://www.swans.com/library/art12/murie05.html
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South American pacu in USA: http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=29370104685
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i like polar bears a lot can i have some free posters and real pictures pleas they are my favoret animals in the hole
world i could iven go to Artic to fined them oh and im 11 years old so u could know ok and u could send them to my house
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Hi Juana, I am not Ouwehand’s Zoo, so I don’t have pictures to send. Their address is at http://www.ouwehand.nl/contact.php.
There are polar bear pictures at many places on the Internet, which you can print out yourself if your computer has a printer; see here.
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