I admit, these photos are from last year ...
I kept them for today...Here we have Knut and definetely not Gianna...as last year noone would have really dared to forecast this year's developments...
No, neither Flocke nor Gianna...
But Kalluk from San Diego 2004
And here Arki 2004...
...the mother of Hudson from Brookfield...(this photo is a fresh one of this week...)
Unfortunately I have no clue who exactly is meant by Whitey in 2005 ...
Here some photos I found on flickr...
From the same photographer... Aquila..
...from North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro where he is back again since April 2009 after he was moved to Louisville and then Cleveland to make space for two confiscated and rescued circus bears...which is another story...
"Trick or treat" had been the motto of this handsome ghostlike animal in Indianapolis Zoo, sure - also already one year ago ... 
And this unknown elephant observed by an unknown photographer in an unknown year seems to set up his own rules for Halloween...By the way, next posting is somehow related, no, not to the pumpkin but to ...Photo credits: Simone Frühlingsstern (1,2), Mervi (3), Jim Schulz (5), Spencer Green (6), Unknown photographers (4,7,8,12), ucumari (9,10), Laura Lynch (11)
Hübsche Fotos von Eisbären mit Kürbissen (mancherorts sehr verspottet) hast Du da eingestellt.
AntwortenLöschenDas Foto Nr. 6 ist übrigens, glaube ich, HUDSON selbst.
Siehe nachfolgende Links: das ist der süße Hudson, der bei einem früher im Internet einmal eingestellten Erkennungsrätsel schon mal mit Knut verwechselt wurde.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92007257@N00/856022580/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricklibrarian/sets/72157600273846869/
Schönen Sonntag uffe Insel!
Dumba
Liebe Dumba,
AntwortenLöschenJa , das ist wohl vom Übergang nicht rübergekommen richtig, No.6 ist Hudson, bloss wer ist Whitey 2005???
Nichtsdestotrotz die Hudson Links von dir sind schön und ich hab sogar was entdeckt,was ich noch nicht kannte....
Also vielen Dank, Dumba,und eine gute Nacht, ooops hier ist schon 1.30...
Birgit
Look what I found:
AntwortenLöschenhttp://good-times.webshots.com/photo/1538488325067297930UwMnFT
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/538472095JsLetx
Consequently: Ashebo(r)ro Zoo, North Carolina (?)
See: “Play time” is also a gorgeous pic!
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2541188310069153680CZFNsc
Do you think it might possibly be YOUR “Whitey”?? But 2005??
http://www.nczoo.org/animals/NorthAmerica/NCZooPolarBear.pdf
Obviously not! It seems to be “Wilhelm” there.
http://www.nczoo.org/
???