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Cologne Zoo 1999 - Empty Polar Bear exhibit

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Scanned photo from my visit in June 1999.

The Polar Bear exhibit was empty and I think the zoo had stopped with them then, although it would have been not that long before as I know someone who saw bears in there the year before.
Scanned photo from my visit in June 1999.

The Polar Bear exhibit was empty and I think the zoo had stopped with them then, although it would have been not that long before as I know someone who saw bears in there the year before.
 
This exhibit would later house common seals for a number of years until it was rebuilt in 2009 to serve as a stage for the freeflight bird shows.
 
This exhibit would later house common seals for a number of years until it was rebuilt in 2009 to serve as a stage for the freeflight bird shows.

Indeed; I believe I saw seals in it in 2002 but I haven't been to Cologne since.
 
The last Polar Bear in Köln was the female Vera. She left Köln at 22.05.2000. She goes to Rhenen in ther Nederlands and in 2006 to Kolind in Danmark. Her cub Victoria dies at 16.09.1999 in Köln.
 
Vera herself died in 2008 after living two years in luxury in the Scandinavian Wild Animal Park.
 

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