This lovable video reveals younger polar bear half-sisters Nora, seven, and Amelia Grey, six, enjoying in a big tub stuffed with ice on the Oregon Zoo in Portland.
In footage shared by the zoo the animals may be seen digging and diving into the ice.
Zookeepers stated the bears, who solely met final 12 months, ‘get pleasure from playfully sparring, rolling in ice and diving into their deep saltwater swimming pools’.
The half-sisters had been each born on the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, as a part of the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan.
The lovable video reveals younger polar bear half-sisters Nora, seven, and Amelia Grey, six, enjoying in a big tub stuffed with ice on the Oregon Zoo in Portland. In footage shared by the zoo the animals may be seen digging and diving into the ice
Nora was transferred to the Oregon Zoo at 10 months outdated to maintain the zoo’s lone polar bear, a 31-year-old feminine named Tasul, firm after her brother, Conrad, died in outdated age.
Amelia Grey joined Nora in Oregon final 12 months, and regardless that that they had by no means met the pair grew to become quick pals, zookeepers stated.
‘Polar bear introductions may be very intense so we took it slowly at first,’ stated Amy Slicing, who oversees the zoo’s polar bear habitat, on the time of their assembly.
‘However they made it very clear they needed to be collectively, and their care staff listened.’
Zookeepers stated the bears, who solely met final 12 months, ‘get pleasure from playfully sparring, rolling in ice and diving into their deep saltwater swimming pools’. The half-sisters had been each born on the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, as a part of the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan
Nora was transferred to the Oregon Zoo at 10 months outdated to maintain the zoo’s lone polar bear, a 31-year-old feminine named Tasul, firm after her brother, Conrad, died in outdated age. Amelia Grey joined Nora in Oregon final 12 months, and regardless that that they had by no means met the pair grew to become quick pals, zookeepers stated
Nora and Amelia Grey contribute to analysis into polar bear diets and the way they could be affected by local weather change, performed by the zoo in partnership with Polar Bears Worldwide, the US Geological Survey and others.
‘Nora enjoys her time in a swim flume designed to assist scientists perceive the caloric necessities of untamed polar bears,’ the zoo stated in a press release.
Amelia Grey, earlier than shifting to Portland, was one among only a few bears outfitted with a ‘Burr on Fur,’ a prototype monitoring system designed for wild bears by 3M.
Nora and Amelia Grey contribute to analysis into polar bear diets and the way they could be affected by local weather change, performed by the zoo in partnership with Polar Bears Worldwide, the US Geological Survey and others
