Tallinn – Tallinn Zoo (Grumpy Polar Bear)

With my Tallinn Card, I took the bus to have a little look at the city’s zoo. One of the new parts of the zoo is the polar bear enclosure, or the Polarium as they call it.

The cuddly polar bear playing.

How cute.

She seemed to be enjoying herself. I’m not a polar bear expert, but the zoo has two of them and I’m going to gamble that this was the female one.

I can’t remember which one this was.

I think I was just about the only visitor at the zoo and the polar bear came over to have a look at what was happening. Actually, I’m not really sure which was which as they do both look like polar bears.

He had an appearance of not being entirely happy.

And then the bloody thing started running and jumped up to the glass in an attempt to hug me. I was bloody delighted at just how tough the glass was as the polar bear was determined to pounce and he came towards me at one hell of a rate. This was not a happy polar bear.

He seemed annoyed to have been foiled by what he must have thought was a force field. I’ve gone off polar bears now, I’ve decided that I wouldn’t have lasted long if that glass would have caved in. You know where you are with meerkats, so I’ve decided that I prefer them now.

Whilst I was at the zoo busy on Google finding out whether a polar bear could break glass, I read about the story of three idiots who annoyed a tiger at San Francisco zoo and the big cat managed to kill one of them.

I can confirm that this is accurate as a polar bear helpfully stood one side of the glass whilst I was on the other. They’re quite big when you get close up.