Happy Bear Year from Orsa!

Dec 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

29.12.2009 by Pernilla Thalin, Photos and video from Orsa Grönklitt

Orsa is a real winter wonderland these days. Ewa and Wilbär are, of course, enjoying their lives in the beautiful enclosure which reminds very much of the ‘real’ environment of polar bears. There’s so much they can do with the snow or in the snow!

Thank you, Pernilla, once more for the beautiful photos and the fantastic video! Knuti’s Weekly and all the readers wish you, Ewa and Wilbär – and ,of course, all the wonderful people working in the Bear Park – a Happy New Year.

Gott Nytt Isbjörnår!

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  1. Dear Pernilla and everybody working in the Orsa Bear Park!

    Thank you again for these wonderful photos and the fantastic video! This video will be a hit – I’m sure of it. It really is heartwarming to see Ewa and Wilbär in their right element.

    Jag önskar er alla ett riktigt gott nytt år och hoppas jag kan komma och hälsa på er igen.

    Hälsningar från Mervi

  2. Dear Pernilla and Mervi,

    Thank you so much for this “magic” video, Orsa looks like the bear paradise and our teenagers are so happy in their wonderful polar bear kingdom !!!

    Thank you Pernilla for taking so good care of Ewa and Wilbaer. You are a true bear lover!:-)
    I wish all polar bears in captivity to have the same wonderful house one day.

    Dear Mervi, thanks a lot for KWM which makes my day every day:-)

    All my very best wishes to all of you for 2010, peace, love, health to you, your family, your friends and your beloved animals.

    Isa

  3. Dear Pernilla and Mervi,

    Wow, Pernilla, what a beautiful video and photographs! Thank you so much for remembering us by sending this evidence of Ewa and Wilbar’s joy in their new home. They are obviously very happy with their home and each other. Also thank you Pernilla and your team for taking such good care of the bears.

    Thank you Mervi for continuing to bring us such wonderful reports. KWM is a pleasure to read!

    Best wishes now and for 2010,
    Sarsam

  4. Dear Pernilla, dear Mervi!
    Thank you for the news from Orsa. It looks like as a winter fairy tale.
    Best wishes
    Ludmila

  5. Dear Mervi & Pernilla,
    Thank you for the news from Orsa…it is truly a winter wonderland for the bears…and they are clearly loved and well cared for…thanks! xo k-j

  6. beautiful….thank you!

  7. Dear Pernilla
    thank you so much once again for spoiling us with such wonderful pics and that simply wonderwonderwonderful video!
    A Happy New Year to you, the bears and the whole Orsa Björnpark staff.
    Grüssles from Stuttgart
    Velvet

  8. Mervi, Pernilla, Thornbjörn!

    Tack så mycket för sköna fotos och videos. De alla är så fina.
    Lyckliga björnungar leker så fantastisk tillsammans.

    Jag önskar GOTT NYTT ÅR!
    Kära hälsningar från Finland

    Teddybärenmutti

  9. Liebe Pernilla, liebe Mervi,

    beim Ansehen des Videos und der Bilder ist mir das Herz übergelaufen.
    Wilbär und Ewa leben wirklich im Traumland für Zooeisbären! Ich freue mich so sehr für die beiden Bären.

    Vielen Dank für das wunderbare Video.

    GiselaH

  10. Dear Pernilla & Staff at Orsa Grönklitt,

    Wow, it looks as though Orsa is currently a winter wonderland for the 2 bears that we follow and all the other animals. There is so much camaraderie between the 2 bears, it is always a joy to peak in on them, as staffers probably realize from working with them. They are never far away from each other. It has been a wonderful year for Ewa and Wilbaer, with their bonding cementing, and very likely continuing.

    Thank you for hosting Mervi.

    Holiday Greetings / Best Wishes for 2010 from Tish

    PS: Love the video ;-)

  11. Dear Mervi , dear Pernilla

    thank you so much for these wonderfull,hartwarming pics and the video from two lucky bears in the snow. They live in a paraadies.

    Bea

  12. Dear Pernilla and all of your colleagues of Orsa, many thanks for these beautiful pictures and lovely video of the two young bears. Isn’t it amazing to see that even though they both were born in captivity, they both have the same natural instincts of their family living in the wild, namely hopping on the ice to break it. However, in their case there wil be no seal underneath the ice, but neverhteless, they react in a normal manner. And yes, they are living in a dreamy Winter wonderland. I agree with what Velvet wrote in The Knuipe: they won the great lot of the lottery. one may wish the same circumstances for all polar bears kept in zoos wherever on earth.
    I wish you and your colleagues a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
    But I have a little question, can somebody give me more details about the music? I like it.
    Patricia

  13. hello mervi,

    thanks a lot for the lovely Wilbär pictures! They are absolutely phantastic and I am very happy the two bears are getting on so well – and have so much space and caring keepers ! Pity Wilbär’s sister didn’ t make it. There seems to be a male dominance as far as polar bear cubs’ survival is concerned…..

    Have a Happy New Year
    Karin

  14. These images from Orsa and the video are pure fantasy in the winter wonderland, so beautiful, so stunning, so unbelievably gorgeous.
    Pernilla thank you, thank you, thank you!

    Happy New Year to all my dear polar and Knutian friends!
    Hugs to all from Leaf

  15. Dear Pernilla,
    It is so nice to see both bears enjoying the snow and each other: they are happy bears. Thank you for the video: you probably enjoy seeing them “live” in Orsa.
    best wishes Pim

  16. Hello Pernilla and Mervi,

    this ist Winterfairytale. ;-)
    It so wonderful to see the happy bears.
    Thank so you much.

    I wish you both a belated Happy new year 2010.

    BH
    Manuela

  17. Dear Pernilla, Dear Mervi
    thank you so much for sharing this dream with us. It is just fantastic, a Winter-, Christmas-, New Year’s-Fairy tale. Wilbär and Ewa are in a polar bear paradise and one can see how much they appreciate their surrounding and they are so glad to be cared for by very nice keepers.
    Hugs from caren&bernd

  18. ….und die beiden Bären lieben sich, soweit man das von Eisbären mit menschlichen Augen betrachtet sehen kann.
    Ich freue mich sehr, dass die beiden in Orsa leben dürfen. Mein Traum wäre gewesen für Flocke und Rasputin im großen Frankenwald (nördlich von Nürnberg) ein ähnliches Umfeld zu schaffen. Am Mittelmeer sind die beiden falsch untergebracht.

    Vielen herzlichen Dank für die Grönklitt-Filme und ein gutes, gesundes und behütetes neues Jahr 2010 allen Menschen die Tiere lieben und hier besonders Eisbären :-)
    Maria aus dem Frankenwald