To be completely honest, I've never seen a zoo that houses bears with any other species. And no one seems to think about them either. The only example I saw was when someone made a giant panda exhibit with Pere David's deer. Know any places that do?
South Lakes has mixed their Andean Bears with species such as tapir, Capybara, capuchin, coati, and small-clawed otter. Other zoos would discourage these mixes... I've seen Red Fox and American Black Bear mixed at the California Living Museum. I think Europe has a few mixed exhibits with Brown Bears and Grey Wolves. Chester Zoo and others mix Sun Bear and Binturong. ~Thylo
There's actually quite a few! Bears/wolves is, strangely enough, a common one. In the past there's also been spectacled bear/tapir/coati, brown bears/foxes, sloth bears/monkeys, etc Where was the giant panda/pere david's mix? Edit: ack, beaten too it! I want to pose the question though: is it ethical? A lot of these bear mixes seem to result in the deaths of the smaller animals involved, namely the fairly recent death of the wolf
I have seen nearly every species of bear in a mixed exhibit, the only exceptions being giant panda and polar bear. American black I have seen mixed with grey wolves (Woburn). Asiatic black I have seen mixed with corsac foxes (Dierenrijk). Sun bear I have seen mixed with binturong (Burgers' and Chester). Sloth bear I have seen mixed with corsac fox (Beekse Bergen), rhesus macaque (Leipzig), hanuman langur (London) and lar gibbon (London). Spectacled I have seen mixed with black-capped squirrel monkeys (Port Lympne, Antwerp), black howler monkey (Frankfurt), brown capuchins (Port Lympne), bush dogs (Frankfurt), and both South American and white-nosed coatis (Antwerp, Artis, and I think other places). Brown I have seen mixed with grey wolves and I'm sure something else, though I can't remember at this moment in time what else I've seen them mixed with...
Oh yes and Syrian Brown Bear mixed with domestic fox is another I've seen. I wish they were Corsac or something cooler ~Thylo
I portrayed it in a way I thought could work but ultimately it is too risky I think for a real zoo to mix pandas with anything.
I think one of the U.K. Safari Parks has a macaque species with American Black Bears. I can think of at least three instances here in the UK where bears in a mixed exhibit killed one of the animals they were sharing with.
There is (or certainly was) a mixed enclosure for sun bears and dhole at Zooparc de Tregomeur in France. There is a long list of bear mixed exhibits on the link below (a number of which no longer exist), which doesn't include some mixes such as American black bear with a variety of ungulates, Hamadryas baboons and ostriches in a German (?) safari park or the older enclosures that mixed multiple bear species together: Mixed-species Exhibits with Ursids
I've seen polar bears mixed with other bear species (both brown bears and Asiatic black bears) but never with non-ursine species. I've seen Syrian brown bears mixed with Corsac foxes at Heidelberg Zoo.
They're domestic foxes, this was the mix I was referring to earlier. Space Farms also mixes black bear and Brown Bear. How could anyone think mixing American Black Bears with White-Tailed Deer is a good idea!? So did I until that article It's probably because we were so focused on the langurs. ~Thylo
