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Polar Bear enclosure - 1982
21-11-2008
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#2
21-11-2008
Great historic photo, but what a brutal cage.
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22-11-2008
how terrible, especially the tiny pond
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30-11-2008
Just how horrible is it all; the concrete walls and floor, lack of stimulation, grubby rotten meat and a tiny black pool.
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30-11-2008
I've only been to Chessington once - back in 1982 - and I wasn't impressed with it at the time at all.
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#6
08-03-2009
The polar bears were only kept in here very briefly whilst their former enclosure was altered , they did also spend time at London Zoo for the same reasons. There were three of these moated enclosures . At one time Chessington kept Syrian Brown , American Black , Asiatic Black , Sloth , Malayan Sun Bears and Polar Bears , aswell as Brown Bears. They never bred Sun Bears at Chessington. Z.
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#7
09-03-2009
In the same year , 1982 , two young Polar Bear cubs arrived "Bonnie and Clyde", they were kept in the other" proper" Polar Bear exhibit. They lived here until 1991 when they went to Zagreb Zoo , Yugoslavia (now croatia). They were the last bears kept at chessington zoo. The three "open" enclosures with a dry ditch were converted to house a mixed exhibit of Barbary Sheep and Barbary Macaques in 1985 , the bears having moved out around 1983/84. This only worked for a brief time - the runaway mine train now occupies the former site roughly. Z
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