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Famous Bear Mountain - Denver Zoo
24-06-2008
May, 2006. Asian black bear and cubs in the grotto.
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#2
02-09-2008
Do you know what zoo the cubs went to?
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#3
02-09-2008
No idea, but that made me think of something else. The 8 bear species vary throughout North American zoos in terms of how common they are, as well as in zoos across the world. For example in Australia they basically only have sun bears in the entire country, with a handful of brown bears and with one zoo that has polar bears. For me the Asiatic Black Bear is the rarest bear! I've been to a heck of a lot of zoos and the only time in my life where I've seen this bear species is at the Denver Zoo. I've seen 4 zoos with giant pandas and only 1 with asiatic black bears.
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#4
03-09-2008
Well, I just saw in ISIS that 12 North American Zoos have them.
http://app.isis.org/abstracts/abs.asp |
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#5
03-09-2008
It's funny that all of the many zoos that I've been to haven't had them...except for Denver. It's cool that there are more zoos that have this bear in their collection.
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#6
06-09-2008
Asian Black Bears are actually being phased out in American zoos. So enjoy them while they are still around.
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#7
14-01-2009
Philadelphia had a "moon bear" when I visited back in 03.
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#8
14-01-2009
The situation is similar in Europe; there are several institutions that keep one or two elderly specimens and will phase out the husbandry once the "retirees" are dead, and only a few zoos breeding them or acquiring new ones.
A few decades ago, the species was comparatively more common in most zoos. |
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#9
15-01-2009
I wonder why no zoos want to take on some rescued bile farm bears. It would make some good publicity that the zoo is rescuing animals that are suffering and giving them a better life.
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#10
16-01-2009
Probably because of all the red tape and politics involved.
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#11
23-01-2009
its a bit of a worry when you consider that basically every non-North American/European bear species could do with a back-up ex-situ program. im all for international breeding programs but in the case of bears it would be great to see North America and European zoos actually split the focus on all bear species and choose regionally, with little to no overlap a few species to concentrate on and plough all resources into them. and then use satellite regions like Australasia and Japan/SEA as back back up.
For example, see North America focus on native bears including polars and perhaps giant panda, sun bear and spectacled bear, with European Zoos shifting focus to mainly Eurasian Brown, Asiatic Black and Sloth. just an idea. i think its a worry when the worlds two biggest zoo regions drop managed programs for the same vulnerable species |
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