Dartmoor Zoo Bears at Dartmoor

zoogiraffe

zoogiraffe

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Right have just been checking my notes from my mini tour of the South West,to ISIS and found that according to ISIS Dartmoor only have 1.1.0 Brown Bear but i saw 3 Bears in the enclosure the 3rd of which looked very much like a Syrian Brown Bear,does any body know if i`m right are where my eyes playing tricks on me??????
 
in the programme i remeber seeing 2 bears, maybe the third one was a ghost?
 
zoogiraffe said:
Right have just been checking my notes from my mini tour of the South West,to ISIS and found that according to ISIS Dartmoor only have 1.1.0 Brown Bear but i saw 3 Bears in the enclosure the 3rd of which looked very much like a Syrian Brown Bear,does any body know if i`m right are where my eyes playing tricks on me??????
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I went to Dartmoor two weeks ago and they had two brown bears (Ben and Kaley) and a syrian brown bear (fudge).
 
Dartmoor have 3 European Brown Bears, 2 females Hayley and Fudge and the young male Ben that came from whipsnade. Fudge is the eldest being well over 30 years old
 
Fudge does actually look like a Syrian bear, but they do label her as a European brown bear.
Is there any news on them breeding? I spoke to a keeper last time I went, and she said that the male, Ben, has been getting "very friendly" with Hayley since they both lost lots of weight when they stopped the public feeding.
 
Don't know any news on breeding but fudge is certainly Syrian unless her species has changed in the two weeks since the keeper told me;).
 
Thanks folks just glad i`m not going mad seeing a Syrian Brown Bear,wasn`t aware any were left in the U.K the last i rember seeing was the ones at Welsh Mountain Zoo
 
They were all listed in the stud book as being European when i was there.

Dartmoor actually had another bear before Hayley and Fudge. She was called Honey and originated from Lornas Mini Zoo, in cornwall when it closed down. She later became ill and died

Fudge orginally came from London Zoo.

And Hayley i believe came from Highland Wildlife Park, along with the European Bison which used to live in front of the resturant with the fallow deer.

Ben was only a baby when he arrived from Whipsnade in the mid 90's

I would be surprised if the bears breed
 
Was Ben hand reared then?
I don't think they'll breed either to be honest, but stranger things have happened.
 
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