front paw, behind paw, and then an involuntary somersault: Berlin’s polar bear cub makes to Struggle and Crawl his first steps.

“Especially with such a small Meatball, the first Fort to fall motion tests still visibly hard,” said the Zoo and zoo Director Andreas Knieriem on Tuesday. Mother Tonya helps the nearly two-month-old polar bear, Chen patiently on the legs.

New images of the cameras from the Wurfbox evidence of the steady growth of the young animal, the increased beginning of the year, and also his eyes has opened. However, absolute rest is for the mother and young animal. Until the beginning to mid-February, want to go for the first Time, a veterinarian in the Wurfbox and in an investigation the gender of the little bear.

Deaf, and blind, and small

Last breeding was Berlin bad luck with the polar bears. The nine-year-old loving mother Tonya has lost her first two litters. Despite the good development of their third boys a rest was not to exclude risk, the animal Park to bear in mind. In nature, around half of the polar bear young are born very immature – deaf, blind and no larger than Guinea-pig dies.

animal Park-visitors would be the polar bear to see the young talent already in the spring. Then the little polar bear would be strong enough to follow its mother on the outside.

Video: the polar bear GPS-camera around the neck: American researchers are on the hunt signed the lives of nine female polar bears. Video: Tamedia/USGS via Storyful

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Created: 22.01.2019, 16:33 PM