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Arctic Ring of Life - Detroit Zoo
13-07-2008
July 2008.
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#2
16-07-2008
Wow, this is an amazing exhibit! I remember seeing it on TV when it came out in Animal Planet in the Ultimate Zoo show back in 2004 and it also looked amazing. Do you know the size of the exhibit?
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#3
16-07-2008
The entire complex is 4.5 acres, but I don't know how much of that is the space for the bears. The seal pool, visitor pathways, etc all make up the entire set of habitats. It's still one of the very best exhibits that I've ever seen.
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#4
01-01-2009
This looks like a great polar bear exhibit! I bet in the winter it is even better with a huge open space for the bears to play!
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#5
02-01-2009
All 3 sections of this exhibit are excellent, and that's why it's the best of its kind on the planet. The pack ice above is massive, the tunnel viewing area is breathtaking, and the huge grassy field is probably the best of the lot. There are lots of photos in the gallery of this outstanding habitat, and it's one exhibit I wouldn't mind visiting on a snowy day!
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02-01-2009
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#7
03-01-2009
@Sun Wukong: the only polar bear exhibit that has ever been raised on ZooChat that is ever remotely close to Detroit's has been the Scandinavian Wildlife Park. Any others that you know of that can compete with the Arctic Ring of Life?
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#8
03-01-2009
Its nowhere near as good as Arctic Ring of Life, but San Diego has a really nice polar bear exhibit. Last time I went all the bears were playing in a mud-hole. Toledo also has a really good Polar Bear exhibit.
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#9
04-01-2009
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 ). And I can predict that then some future zoofriends will bash and harshly animadvert the then old-fashioned 'Artic Ring of Life' exhibits, judging solely from the visitor's point of view, and ask: "How could they ever build such ghastly, terrible animal prisons?!?! The one in zoo X is so much nicer!" Unless we will see considerable improvements in regard to the animals kept within over a longer (!) period of time, I would stop praising new exhibits-and trying to rank everything and everyone... |
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#10
04-01-2009
@Sun Wukong: there are more than one hundred members of ZooChat that at one time or another have ranked zoos or exhibits worldwide, and books like "America's Best Zoos" are stockpiled with ranking systems for the 25 best exhibits, 10 best zoos for Asian animals, 10 best zoos for birds, and loads of other categories. It is human nature for many people to place items in an order of most desired or best/worst, and how many threads are on this site discussing the best hippo pool, best overall zoo, best tiger exhibit...and this list could go on all day so don't ever expect myself and others to stop ranking exhibits. Good luck with that one, haha! In the future the Arctic Ring of Life exhibit at the Detroit Zoo will become outdated, but at this moment in time it is the best polar bear enclosure on the planet. Once something better comes along then we can all judge this 2001 exhibit and complain about it, but for the past 8 years now the Detroit Zoo is #1 for polar bears!!! I only wish the zoo had the funding to create a few more incredible enclosures...
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#11
04-01-2009
Sun Wukong, you can be the most anoying
 Snowleopard, l would be interested in a detailed description of this exhibit. What is real and what is artifical?? From this picture it could all be just sprayed concrete?
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#12
04-01-2009
It's a shame that "The Ultimate Zoo" doesn't air on Animal Planet anymore because The Arctic Ring of Life was one of the exhibits shown.
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#13
04-01-2009
ZooLex Exhibit
There is the ZooLex link to this AZA Best Exhibit Award winner. All of the information that you'd want is on that link, and there are also a lot of photos that I've uploaded into the ZooChat gallery in the past. There are arctic foxes and seals in separate enclosures, but for the polar bears in Detroit there are 3 large habitats. One of them is primarily sprayed, rugged concrete (in the photo above) and is massive in size but arguably the weakest of the three enclosures. A second area has a huge pool with the walk-through tunnel going into it, and the last area is a grassy meadow with another large pool. The photos in the gallery and on the ZooLex link will give you an indication of the overall impression of the habitat. I'm intrigued by the fact that the 4.2 acre Arctic area opened 8 years ago and there really isn't a single zoo that has come close to replicating Detroit's polar habitat. |
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#14
05-01-2009
Are the bears continually shifted between the three enclousures? (For enrichment purposes.)
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#15
05-01-2009
Yes, I think they swap two groups between the grassy and snowy side of the enclosure.
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