Denver Zoo 2010 - Polar Bear in Northern Shores

September 2010

Polar Bear in Northern Shores. This shipwreck is used for enrichment and can contain treats for the bears in various places.

Quite nice use for such a furniture of the exhibit. It not just takes space, but has a spot to hide for the animal and enrichment.

Animal said:

Quite nice use for such a furniture of the exhibit. It not just takes space, but has a spot to hide for the animal and enrichment.

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I agree; Denver's exhibit is clearly a child of the 80s but it is far away from being the worst I've seen (and having recently returned from my visit to the Baltic countries, I don't think I'll ever see as sad polar bear exhibits as I saw there again ... I sure hope not at least)

I have always been displeased with Polar Bear exhibit. I don't know if it would be possibly, depending on the underground area of the cage, but do you think some zoos could take a hammer to the concrete and grow some grass. It seems Polar Bear exhibit always hit the sun, mostly because there isn't any trees, with the right amount of depth and soil, I'm sure they could grow some grass.