21.10.2023 by Ralph Morton
After four Polar Bear packed days in Denmark I arrived in Bremerhaven to meet another mother with two daughters.
Small but fine the Zoo by the sea reproduces (like Aalborg) the sort of terrain you find on Svalbard, Glimpses of the busy seascape behind also interest the bears.
The habitat has been carefully designed to give the bears an interesting and varied place to live.
Valeska and her two princesses, Anna and Elsa, are in this photograph. Look carefully and you will see mum at the front and the girls in front of the wall behind her.
There are two distinct enclosures within the habitat separated by a door and grill. If Valeska gets fed up with her girls, they can live separately as Lloyd, their father, used to do. But so far they are very relaxed.
Anna and Elsa have grown into fine looking Polars but still sometimes stick together like cubs.
Here they take a look at the port beyond the walls.
It is now very hard to tell who is who in the photos.
Two viewing windows near the entrance allow you to get really close to the bears. I think this is Valeska but all three are the same size now so it could be Anna or Elsa.
As in the Arctic two Polar Foxes live near the bears (their enclosure is of course separate). The white fur one and grey on the other reflected the fact that September was very warm.
All the animals in the Zoo are given plenty to occupy them.
My day in Bremerhaven went very quickly. It is a friendly and really successful little zoo.
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