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Hybrid Bear at Osnabrück, 03/06/12

[i]Ursus maritimus[/i] x [i]Ursus arctos arctos[/i] The zoo also has an elderly female European Brown Bear held in an off-show-but-sort-of-visible enclosure near the tigers, but the 'Breisbären' resulting from a previous mixed group of bears are the main display. It's perhaps an odd choice to continue to display only the hybrids - a cynic would suggest they got stuck with them as no-one else wants them, a more generous view would be that it's laudable that they are looking after animals that could have become cast-off oddities so well.

Hybrid Bear at Osnabrück, 03/06/12
Maguari, 23 Feb 2013
    • Maguari
      Ursus maritimus x Ursus arctos arctos

      The zoo also has an elderly female European Brown Bear held in an off-show-but-sort-of-visible enclosure near the tigers, but the \'Breisbären\' resulting from a previous mixed group of bears are the main display. It\'s perhaps an odd choice to continue to display only the hybrids - a cynic would suggest they got stuck with them as no-one else wants them, a more generous view would be that it\'s laudable that they are looking after animals that could have become cast-off oddities so well.
    • Pertinax
      Interesting how in this shot the legs and head look more Polar- like, while in the previous side-on photo it looks a bit more 'Brown bear' though overall the Polar bear characteristics seem dominant in both these shots.

      This isn't the same bear that featured on a postcard is it? ( I thought that was a 'white' brown bear but maybe not..)
    • Maguari
      This photo and the dead-side-on one are consecutive shots of the same animal; I just went and checked as there are two bears (1.1, siblings) and it occurred to me they might be different animals in the two shots!
    • IanRRobinson
      It does look rather like a flavistic small Polar Bear.
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