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Brown Bear, Hotham Park Zoo, Bognor Regis

Photo from early 80s. Apologies for its poor quality: scanned from a faded print, of a picture taken when I was very young. This pit was part of the zoo development in the late 70s / early 80s. It wold have made rather a good coati or racoon enclosure, maybe, but was quite a snug fit for the three brown bears that resided there, and spent most of their time begging for nuts (as in this picture). They eventually escaped, and were shot - an event that contributed to the zoo's eventual closure, I think.

Brown Bear, Hotham Park Zoo, Bognor Regis
sooty mangabey, 9 Jun 2012
    • sooty mangabey
      Photo from early 80s. Apologies for its poor quality: scanned from a faded print, of a picture taken when I was very young.

      This pit was part of the zoo development in the late 70s / early 80s. It wold have made rather a good coati or racoon enclosure, maybe, but was quite a snug fit for the three brown bears that resided there, and spent most of their time begging for nuts (as in this picture). They eventually escaped, and were shot - an event that contributed to the zoo\'s eventual closure, I think.
      9 Jun 2012
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