Hopefully this concrete monstrosity has been demolished in the past decade, as it doesn't quite look like the National Zoo's brilliant sloth bear habitat in Washington D.C.
the sloth bears moved out years ago. It now has woodchips on the floor and more bushes, treetrunks and wooden poles (I think there is a photo of that somewhere on zoochat already...). It was home to a polarbear for a while (Tania, now in Rotterdam). After that it was empty. But now a spectacled bear is a temporary inhabitant. (coati's will join him/her soon). This is just for a while untill this area will be revamped into a polarbear exhibit (this will include the area of the old polarbear enclosure, the spectacled bear enclosure and the nilgai+axisdeer enclosure).
the sloth bears moved out years ago. It now has woodchips on the floor and more bushes, treetrunks and wooden poles (I think there is a photo of that somewhere on zoochat already...). It was home to a polarbear for a while (Tania, now in Rotterdam). After that it was empty. But now a spectacled bear is a temporary inhabitant. (coati's will join him/her soon). This is just for a while untill this area will be revamped into a polarbear exhibit (this will include the area of the old polarbear enclosure, the spectacled bear enclosure and the nilgai+axisdeer enclosure).
I'm delighted that Artis will not give up Polar Bears. My last zoo tour in the Netherlands was in 2004; I went to the Owehands Zoo in Rhenen and saw their great exhibit, at the time I think it was the only Polar Bear exhibit in the country, although perhaps another zoo had received the lone female from Antwerpen at the time. Polar Bears returned to Rotterdam soon after.
