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Barle's Story

One Polar Bear's Amazing Recover from Life as a Circus Act

by (author) Else Poulsen

Publisher
Greystone Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
Bears, Animal Rights
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926812885
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $17.95

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In this inspiring and moving story, world-renowned zookeeper Else Poulsen describes how a female polar bear named Bärle was rescued from the filthy, inhumane conditions of a circus in the Caribbean and flown to the safety of the Detroit Zoo, where Poulsen helped her recover. There Bärle feels dirt instead of concrete under her paws for the first time in decades and slowly forges relationships with the other polar bears. Eventually, she mates and raises a cub. As Poulsen documents, however, not all captive bears are so fortunate. With black-and-white photographs.

About the author

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Else Poulsen holds a BSC degree in biological sciences. She has worked at the Calgary and Detroit zoos and is known internationally in the zoo and animal welfare community for her work with captive bear husbandry and rehabilitation. She has taught at conferences and workshops around the world and won the Zookeeper Excellence Award for bear research from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 2000. She currently lives in Southern Ontario and works with zoos and other animal welfare organizations as an animal behaviour specialist.

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