Offspring in the animal Park : the stage is set for Berlin's youngest polar bear

The polar bear is one of the most dangerous predators in the world – but in the animal Park of Berlin, the front paw of the polar bear Tonja is currently serving as a rocking rod. Your polar bear baby at the premiere outing lurches on Friday in the fresh air.

Then the grasses are nibbled, horse mackerel inspected in the mouth and the three and a half months, the young polar bear females it attracts the same time into the water, splash, Swim, work right away.

And: polar bears mother Tonya that pushes the white ball with a paw or foot in the right direction, if the Little one is coming in spite of baby animal tag just a corral of rocks. The rehearsal for the first polar bear day on Saturday runs so well.

"Tonya is a perfect mother, she takes excellent care," says the animal Park Director Andreas Knieriem. At the press presentation at the Tierpark in Friedrichsfelde, he will not be asked constantly for the name of the Small, but still.

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Some find Yes, it should be named Elsa after the Disney character, or Greta, according to Greta Thunberg, finally, the Baby is also a symbol animal for the sake of climate change, endangered counterparts in the wild. "The mother gave her a name," said Knieriem.

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Tonya calls the Small in the typical polar bear language, a mixture of Huffing and puffing and Loud. As Tonya leaves for the first Time after all the months of her Den, she turns around immediately, as the young animal follows. Stretches the head, scenting the air, and grumbles – maybe you had the smell of a dog in the nose. The Little sucked in again and again and snuggled up to watch everything in the visit to the oval, from the entrance to the bear shop window and then to the right. On this Saturday from 9.30 PM open to all visitors.

twelve years Ago, tens of thousands of visitors queue

Again a day of days, this time in Lichtenberg, as the 23. In March 2007, when 100 journalists teams with transfer car for the transmitter from the USA, Scandinavia, Pakistan and South Africa their cameras on the security bars outside the enclosure of Zooeisbär Knut constructions. 5000 visitors to the Zoo in the Tiergarten, at the time, on a conventional day, more than 10,000 guests were in it, as the little elephant 2000 presented Kiri.

twelve years Ago, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world until close to the Breitscheidplatz in Charlottenburg snake to catch a few minutes of a look at Thomas village and the hand-reared polar bear in the middle of media christened the animal idea of the "Knut Show". Some criticized the excessive Hype, the other found it in the sense of the attention in terms of global warming, well, that Knut has become the symbol animal of the UN climate change conference, the Berlinale, to the stamp, special printing, sofa sets his names and films of him acted.

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The KaDeWe Department store is a "limited edition Knut collection",, KPM Berlin offered a porcelain figurine. The Berlin tourism marketing company knew of the promotional factor of the predator young: "Knut is a likeable character, and the coat of arms animal, the Berlin bear, in terms of its image."

first polar bear young for a quarter of a century

Without the phenomenon of Knut, already a shadow of its former self as a permanent-Dermoplastik in the natural history Museum, it would never today's interest in a Zooeisbären. And it is the first polar bear offspring in the animal Park for a quarter of a century. The enclosure also bears a curator Florian Sicks will be pleased at the General rehearsal day, with the four veterinary nurses, and many other employees.

The second appointment to the animal doctor's visit on Tuesday, the nurses no longer have to get the agile Small even on the scale, so you around hopped. Also Tonya was in the birthing cave – guarded, thanks to six transfer of cameras, most recently after the winter break, much livelier.

shaking vigorously Once more. Swimming is for the little polar bear is no Problem.Photo: John MACDOUGALL / AFP

And so it moved to the new bear-the dream team again and again out, in 1957, at the opening of the largest polar bear facility in the world. On the panels there is a lot of information about the deadly threat of the human civilization, the polar bears can't hunt without ice floes, are not, if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, as it is also Greta Thunberg calls with Fridays for the Future, in danger of extinction, "because you can't swim as fast as Robben".

The zoo collaborates with "Polar Bears International", in addition to the enclosure, a donation box is for the protection of species, and every day at 11 a.m. on the enclosure, a info talk. It is also one of the Security staff happy. She is a Fan of the Small, and also the team Eisbären Berlin.

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