Hamburg Zoo - Kamchatka bear exhibit

The exhibit for Kamchatka bears in Hamburg Zoo. A pretty good exhibit, not fantastic, but an OK exhibit for these huge bears from North America.

The Kamchatka penisula is actually situated in eastern Russia - so the Kamchatka brown bears is not North American...

Whats the diffrence between pretty good and phantastic ?

Pretty good means OK but could be a little bit better. Fantastic means it is the best and couldn't be improved.

Sorry, but there are always ways to improve an exhibit. Ergo, there is no "fantastic" animal exhibit...

I agree with you, Sun Wukong ! But there are"Phantastic LOOKING" exhibits.

@Zebraduiker: Yeah, and for some people, appearance (mainly on first sight) is everything...

I haven't been to Hagenbeck since 1995. I thought I was following its matters fairly well but I never knew the Brown Bears had a new exhibit. When was it opened? Is it on the same location as the old exhibit. And I thought Hagenbeck always had Kodiak bears, not Kamchatka bears. The bears I saw were huge beasts, but of course Kodiak and Kamchatka bears live in the same part of the world, only divided by the Bering Strait.

Baldur said:

When was it opened? Is it on the same location as the old exhibit. And I thought Hagenbeck always had Kodiak bears, not Kamchatka bears.

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It was opend 2005 and is attached to the old enclosure. A bridge over the old dry-moat connects the two enclosures.
Till 2007 there was a single kodiak named Buffy. He moved to ZOOM Gelsenkirchen. From russia came 4 young kamtschatkas. By now they have still 1,1 in this enclosure. But they are not that huge by now. Give them some more years!