Freezing Highland weather gives Polar Bear the shivers

By Michael MacLeod

BRITAIN’S only Polar Bear has stunned her zookeepers by hiding from a fresh flurry of snow.

Edinburgh Zoo’s former favourite attraction – Mercedes the polar bear – was shifted north to the Highland Wildlife Park to roam in a colder habitat to match her native Canada.

She was expected to lap up the white stuff like every other Polar Bear on earth.

Mercedes is on the move

 

Mercedes is getting ready to move to the Highlands

 

By Cara Sulieman

BRITAIN’S only polar bear is getting ready to move to a new home in the Highlands after a quarter of a century living in the same place.

Mercedes has been at Edinburgh Zoo since 1984 after being rescued from Canada where she was going to be shot for venturing into a nearby town.

But later this month she is going to be moved up to the Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie where a four acre tundra environment has been created just for her.

Although her enclosure is big enough for her needs, visitors have always been worried about the little space she has.