Monday, May 07, 2012

From Mark Rosenthal

Toledo Zoo History

for your info
thought you might enjoy this
Mark

Posted by Buckles at 5/07/2012 05:34:00 AM

5 comments:

Larry Louree said...

Doesn't look like a very big bear. Not as big as those that we had at CW Fl. They were fast moving too.

07 May, 2012 20:57
Chic Silber said...

Albert & Jeannette Rix had a much

bigger polar bear named Horsey but

4 of Ursula's 10 polar bears were

TREMENDOUS & did that marvelous

march across the arena towering

over her diminutive form

07 May, 2012 22:17
JC Hall said...

Not really Chic,
Albert had a male named Orsen and yes he was an extremely large polar; However I spent a week plus visting Circus World during the time that they were building the polar pool and helping Ursela when she had a bit of a foot problem on a couple of her critters. The shoots she was using to shift the bears to and from the arena were on casters, no bottoms. The bears actually walked on the pavment.Three or four of her bears were sholder hight to me when going thru the shoot. Quite a bit larger than Albert's Orsen.Never the less their smaller female polars were larger than any thing I have messed with.The polar on the motorcycle was named Zero. I had cleaned her cage a few times when helping Eloise.

08 May, 2012 14:03
Chic Silber said...

Thanks Jimmy for the correction

on the name Orsen but all the rest

seems just about right

Ursula's bears had foot problems

from when she 1st came to the Blue

08 May, 2012 16:59
Darryl said...

two of the bears started fighting shifting through that chute at cw and started to stand up with chute on their backs. Quite exciting as we were waiting with the elephants to go past.

09 May, 2012 18:16

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