Feeding Time @ The Highland Wildlife Park
DescriptionWalker arrived from Rhenen Zoo in the Netherlands in October 2010; he was born there on 7 December 2008. In April 2012 we received another male called Arktos from Hanover Zoo. He was born on 30 November 2007. The two boys have become inseparable and have formed a very close bond.
On 25 March 2015 we welcomed the UK's only female polar bear all the way from Aalborg Zoo in Denmark. Her name is Victoria and she was born on 12 December 1996 at Rostock Zoo in Germany.
Victoria has her very own large custom-built enclosure, featuring a pond and soft areas of ground, as well as plenty of space for her to explore. It is completely separate to the male polar bears which allows us to mimic the behaviour of polar bears in the wild who only come together to mate.
In total, Highland Wildlife Park devotes more space to polar bears (over four hectares, or 10 acres, in total) than any other zoological institution in the world, and the successful work of the Park in enclosure design and development is being mirrored elsewhere.