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Where can you have the pleasure to see Chubby?
Right, the City Zoo is the best place in town to meet wild animals in natural-like environments. You also can learn about their habitat, life span, and many other interesting facts.
As you probably guessed Chubby is our well-known one-year-old grizzly cub. It is a beautiful male brown bear which can be seen running around the green at times. Although he spends most of the time near his mother, Lucy, he also spends some time playing with the trainer and the veterinarian. He seems to be very friendly with Joe and Henna, the zoo Labrador Retriever dogs. Chubby can play with them for a while.
The scientific name for brown bears or grizzly bears is Ursus arctos. Grizzly bear eat fish, vegetation and at times small animals. Male adults can weight up to 700 pounds and females up to 350. Did you know that bears hibernate for almost seven months a year? How can they survive then? They live off the body fat they stored before hibernation