The Bear Country expansion signals a growth for the Zoo's bear breeding program. Plus the bears get heated pools.
America’s first zoo announced Thursday that it will soon embark on a $20 million transformation of its Bear Country exhibit. The project, which will begin later this year or early 2025 and be completed in 2026, includes creation of a state-of-the-art third bear habitat, renovation of the two existing bear habitats, and extending the zoo’s innovative Zoo360 trail system.
New glass viewing areas will allow zoo visitors to get closer to the bears, and the planned enhancements will create new learning opportunities, according to zoo officials. “I’m not joking. They’re getting heated pools,” said Rachel Metz, the zoo’s vice president of animal well-being and conservation. “We’re also building a new cub-friendly yard that will allow new baby bears to learn how to be bears in a safe and comfortable way with their mother.”
facility as will the zoo’s colony of Humboldt penguins. Sinchi, the zoo’s Andean bear, has been paired with a female at another zoo. But Metz said the zoo will get a mating pair of Andean bears when the Bear Country expansion is complete.
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