
This is me, Tundra, from Indy Zoo in Indianapolis. It's my birthday today, already my 23rd birthday, can you believe it? Here with a cake, which is not from this year but which was excellent...

Would you like to see the birthday cake of this year????

This is the cake of this year's anniversary, Laura, my keeper, was a bit early this time, I got it already last Monday...Can't say that I objected...)) It just could have been a little bit bigger, don't you think?

"Hey, It's my birthday too, where the heck is my cake...? All cakes to me, please, and can someone tell me, why Tundra has already got her cake already and didn't share it with me? For someone born on the very same day she should have done a little better..."

"Young, amazing, very charismatic, clever and lazy....", his reputation as celebrity bear in the Czech Republic makes Umca from Brno even forget all about birthday cakes, pretending to be less greedy than Troll...By the way, Umca turns 11 today...In Deutschland kennt man vor allen Dingen seine Hinterbeine...Im Februar war er nur per Narkose zu bewegen, Lara und Gelsenkirchen zu verlassen um seinem Sohn Bill Platz zu machen...-
By the way, in Germany his hindlegs are famous too. In February he had to be anaesthetised to make him leave Lara and Gelsenkirchen while his son Bill was already queuing in another transportation crate...

Umca:"But now you are all in for a surprise...A surprise for all who celebrate today an anniversary, no matter if bear or human ..., for example UlliJ, it's her birthday too..."

"Jeez, I already thought, it would never be our turn...No, no, I am not UlliJ. And if it's my birthday too? To be honest, no, but I know someone else, who celebrates her birthday too today. But let me introduce myself first, my name is Arctic, my birthday will be on 9 December, I will turn 8 then, I am originally from Sweden and have been living in Japan since 1993. Together with my beloved wife, who was also born as the others on a 15th of November...So, and that's my surprise...."

"Although I don't know if the little one in this photo above is my wife or my dead brother-in-law, one thing is for sure, the lady on the pic is my mother-in-law...."

And here she comes - my wife....OHOTO !!!!!!!!"
"Ja, es stimmt, ich bin es. Ohoto. Und ich bin wirklich die Tochter von Mercedes. Ich lebe immer noch in der Präfektur von Wakayama in einer Einrichtung, die Adventure World heißt...Ich wurde vor genau 8 Jahren in Edinburgh geboren, und wie Arctic kam ich 1993 hierher. Mehr über unser Leben und das Gelände hier etwas später, denn um ehrlich zu sein, fühle ich mich gerade überwältigt und muss erstmal ein wenig allein sein.Und dann muss ich auch noch Mutti irgendwie die Nachricht in die Highlands überbringen...Sie denkt ja wahrscheinlich, dass ich tot bin..."
"Yes, it's me, Ohoto and I am Mercedes daughter, I am still living in the prefecture of Wakayama in a facility which is called Adventure World...I was born 8 years ago in Edinburgh and as Arctic, I came here in 1993. I will tell you more about my time here during one of the next days, I feel overwhelmed and need to be alone for a while. Have to get in touch with Mom in the Highlands first to bring her the good news....I hope she won't get a heart attack as she has been told that I were dead..."

"But in fact, since 13 October she has become grand-ma. That is her grand-daughter. The little cutie will be handraised but she is doing fine so far...!"

Me too, I am overwhelmed by these news of Ohoto still living and having made Mercedes a grand-ma...So just all the best to all who have a reason to celebrate today, especially UlliJ, whose e-mail in February about Mercedes announced relocation left me also digging ever since about Ohoto's whereabouts...It was a long way, a closing circle and new beginnings...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Credits:
I want to say thank you especially to Taguchi whose impressive photostream (zoo-uni)I discovered just a few days ago... thanks to a link a friend from Canada, sent to me, who is also into polar bears...It got already hot a couple of weeks ago when another friend sent me another link to Japan where I could find now the little bottle fed cub of Ohoto...By the way, I think it's time to learn some Japanese...
- Photos Tundra/Laura Lynch
- Photo Troll/Jens
- Photos Umca/Ike & Wolf und Tapir Forum & World of Animals
- Photos Arctic, Ohoto & Polar Bear Baby/uni-zoo
- Photo (small) cub on 11 November 2009/Adventure Park Wakayama
Not displayed: Bottle fed baby bear & other recent photos of Ohoto's cub on Shirokuma's website
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2 Kommentare:
Guten Abend Birgit,
das ist eine tolle Geburtstagsüberraschung für mich. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass ich zusammen mit so vielen illusteren Eisbären Geburtstag habe.
Und das Enkelkind von Mercedes ist einfacg zu niedlich. Hoffentlich geht da alles gut.
Mein Lieblingsgeburtstags-Eisbär von heute ist Troll, er kommt aus NRW wie ich und ist ein Bär mit Charakter. Hoffentlich hat er heute an seinem Geburtstag auch etwas besonders Leckeres zu fressen bekommen.
Umca, der andere Geburtstagsbär, ist wieder einmal auf "Vaterschaftsurlaub", diesmal in Brastislava auf einer Braunbärenanlage. Wenn mit Cora und ihrem Nachwuchs alles gut geht, dann soll er dort 15 Monate bleiben. Da heißt es also auch Daumendrücken.
LG Ulli
C'est la première fois que je vois un bébé ours polaire...je trouve ca joli!
Elsa, 10 ans
Rodrigues
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