What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
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In <strong>the</strong> 2004 report, Acres recommended add<strong>in</strong>g more furniture to <strong>the</strong>enclosure to make it more complex and <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g for <strong>the</strong> bears. 18 Rootballs, logs and rocks properly placed over a deep natural substrate weresuggested to allow <strong>the</strong> bears to dig beneath <strong>the</strong>m to create rest<strong>in</strong>g or evendenn<strong>in</strong>g places. In addition, it was recommended that <strong>the</strong> root balls and logsshould have <strong>in</strong>tact bark, so <strong>the</strong> bears can chew it or rip it up. It was alsosuggested that <strong>the</strong> bears should be given rotten logs that <strong>the</strong>y can rip apart.No evidence of any of <strong>the</strong>se suggestions be<strong>in</strong>g implemented was apparentdur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> course of this study.What’s a polar bear do<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> tropics?57www.acres.org.sg