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One winter, they kept elk together with the bison. I often wonder why they don't allow animals who cohabit well to share spaces, as it could mean much larger spaces for them and it seems more natural, but, anyway, I enjoyed this visit.
The Toronto Zoo has a very cool thing in the kid's area in which they give presentations featuring lots of birds in flight, from native species, such as the turkey vulture, to more exotic birds, such as this one.
Shintay, the 26-yr-old grizzly at the Toronto Zoo, is awake!
InstagramToronto Zoo on Instagram: "Awake in time for #WorldBearDay 🐻
Did you hear? Grizzly bear Shintay, on the heels of her 26th year of life, is awake from her winter torpor!
Grizzly bears participate in what’s known as winter torpor each year. It’s a state of reduced physiological activity, similar to hibernation, where animals lower their body temperature, heart rate, and breathing rate to conserve energy during periods of cold weather or food scarcity, often for shorter durations than hibernation.
As she continues having access to her behind-the-scenes den, please note that Shintay may be unviewable at times to guests travelling through the Canadian Domain. Adjusting to her outdoor habitat after being in her den means she may be a little sensitive to noise.
During your next Zoo visit, be a good guest by keeping your noise levels to a minimum. Shintay thanks you 🐻"254 likes, 2 comments - thetorontozoo on March 23, 2025: "Awake in time for #WorldBearDay 🐻
Did you hear? Grizzly bear Shintay, on the heels of her 26th year of life, is awake from her winter torpor!
Grizzly bears participate in what’s known as winter torpor each year. It’s a state of reduced physiological activity, similar to hibernation, where animals lower their body temperature, heart rate, and breathing rate to conserve energy during periods of cold weather or food scarcity, often for shorter durations than hibernation.
As she continues having access to her behind-the-scenes den, please note that Shintay may be unviewable at times to guests travelling through the Canadian Domain. Adjusting to her outdoor habitat after being in her den means she may be a little sensitive to noise.
During your next Zoo visit, be a good guest by keeping your noise levels to a minimum. Shintay thanks you 🐻".
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Here it was a split second later, higher (I was shooting 6fps). (I love this series of images.)
Somewhere I have a series of a polar bear playing with a smaller ball, bouncing it on the bottom of its pool as it plays under water. Animals may live to survive, but they are so capable of play. :)
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Sampson and Shintay, coming out of hibernation one spring. It's taken through less than ideally-clean plexiglass, but I love their friendship.
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Think of the force it takes to "bounce" a ball this big into the water so far that it bounces up like this? It was having so much fun that day. I think it is the male, Sampson (but apologies to Shintay, if I'm mistaken).
FWIW, if this was Sampson, he died at the age of 25, so he was a spritely 17 here. :)
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The Toronto Zoo had 2 grizzlies, both rescued as cubs. One died and then there was one, but both are/were in their 20s!!! I am not sure which one this is, but it loved playing in the water.
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I love that you can take shots at the zoo and pretend you're somewhere else. :)
Sometimes things seem like a good idea in the moment, and, if you're lucky, you'll make that quick decision to get out of there while the going's good. :)
The bird was in flight again as the lion raised his head in curiosity. :)
Snow day!
These animals seemed to have a lot of fun in the snow. Too bad they have moved on (to another zoo).
Watching the pack play, one can almost image that they are just dogs. :)
Speaking of stick (alt text), did you know that when two wolves really like each other and share an adult activity, sometimes the boy wolf's boy part remains stuck for a while? So that when the female walks around afterwards, the male has no choice but to tag along? The time I witnessed this, he did look as if he had a huge smile on his face.
