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Hybrid Bear at Osnabrück, 03/06/12

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[i]Ursus maritimus[/i] x [i]Ursus arctos arctos[/i]

The zoo also has an elderly female European Brown Bear held in an off-show-but-sort-of-visible enclosure near the tigers, but the 'Breisbären' resulting from a previous mixed group of bears are the main display. It's perhaps an odd choice to continue to display only the hybrids - a cynic would suggest they got stuck with them as no-one else wants them, a more generous view would be that it's laudable that they are looking after animals that could have become cast-off oddities so well.
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Ursus maritimus x Ursus arctos arctos

The zoo also has an elderly female European Brown Bear held in an off-show-but-sort-of-visible enclosure near the tigers, but the \'Breisbären\' resulting from a previous mixed group of bears are the main display. It\'s perhaps an odd choice to continue to display only the hybrids - a cynic would suggest they got stuck with them as no-one else wants them, a more generous view would be that it\'s laudable that they are looking after animals that could have become cast-off oddities so well.
 
This looks a nice enough place. Is it doable by train from Koln and worthwhile the effort to get there?
 
It's probably possible, but it would be a long day I'd say. May be better to spend a night up there and do Munster on the second day! I quite like Osnabrück (the 'underground' house in particular is great) but to get there you'd be going past a lot of other zoos of the same or greater quality (Wuppertal, Dortmund, Munster etc), so it really depends whether you've already done/are already doing those!
 

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