The park used to exhibit two polar bear named Bjurn and Tasha delivered from Adelaide Zoo after a breeding program in 1992. However, Bjurn died on March 31, 2004 while Tasha died on March 30, 2005, both due to old age. The exhibit is now used as a Humboldt penguin exhibit, the polar bears can be seen as a taxidermy in the exhibit.
I can find only find one media showing a living Taman Safari's polar bear Skip to minute 21:46. The polar bear shown is Tasha, since this was filmed on December 2004
The video is shown on my phone. It's in YouTube, the keyword is "Taman Safari Des 2004". The thumbnail show a zebra with a colorful words saying "Taman Safari Des 2004"
Please tell me there is air-conditioning. No way a polar bear can survive the Indonesian heat without that.
According to my dad, who have been to Taman Safari since the first week of it's opening, there is a air conditioning.
Some info about the bears that I forgot to mention. The bears are wild caught in Russia, they were delivered to Ruhr Zoo in Germany and later moved to Adelaide Zoo.
Giant panda actually live in a temperate to quite cold climate. It is better than having a tundra animal, but you still need full indoor air-conditioning among it's picky diet to hold them in tropical zone.
That said: Bogor is quite a quintessential location where a mild tropical climate exists as well as a good choice of bamboo is locally available. The - admittedly repressive unhealthy oppressive regime - old Dutch colonials like to travel up from Jakarta to Bogor to escape the heat and humidity of the megapolis city. Personally, I like both the inner-city Jakarta area as well as Bogor very much. What is less agreeable is the traffic in and out of Jakarta ...., a nightmare in day time. (Excuse my honesty Nandito, no harm intended!). But well the Indonesians in general are so nice, welcoming and courteous that we "Westerners" might like to copy and adopt their example in hospitality and courtesy forthwith!
Nah, It's true. Traffic and flood is a every day sight Well, in term of humor, most Indonesian aren't so nice about it. Like no matter how controversial the thing their joking about, they're going the milk the joke until It's dry. The only controversial Indonesian joke that I think will never die is the meme that will appear in every Indonesian internet user social media every September.
@Fargusno found a picture of Tasha on Instagram and sent it to me. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGjlWb5H_gn/?igshid=12rsbuhybtthl It looks like she lives until the late 2000's, instead of March 2005. Her face also have some sort of large black wart.