At Salzburg Zoo
Bears end hibernation and the snow comes
The two brown bears at Salzburg Zoo are currently experiencing a white miracle: snow arrived at the beginning of this week, just as their hibernation was coming to an end. But Losa, the female bear, who had lost a few kilos, only seemed surprised at first.
"It was almost as if she wanted to say that it wasn't meant to be," said Zoo Director Sabine Grebner.
In the end, however, the bear took the snow in her stride and can now be seen in the outdoor enclosure every day, although at the moment it is mainly to have her breakfast in the morning. Bear Aragon, whose 32 years are already in his bones, is quite different. "After hibernating since November, his old joints are understandably not yet doing so well. But he is receiving medical care and supportive medication. His will is definitely there and so is his appetite," says Grebner.
According to the zoo, bears are individualists. Brown bears can also be quite flexible when it comes to changing environmental conditions. Hibernation in itself is a flexible biological phenomenon, because in principle, hibernation can be described as a hibernation that is interrupted several times.
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