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Latest news in Yorkshire: Published February 21, 2019 11:49:34 AM
A brrr-illiant idea has put the animals at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on
ice….and they love it.
A consignment of ice was delivered to the award-winning park after a
generous donation from The Ice Co, the nation’s biggest producer of ice.
The park’s four polar bears, Nobby, Nissan, Pixel and Victor, based at
the ten-acre Project Polar Reserve, gleefully plunged around in the
mountains of ice.
YWP’s Carnivore Team Leader Kim Wilkins said: “Our polar bears
absolutely loved playing around in the ice. They were in their element.
It was a real Half Term treat.”
She added: “It’s such an amazing idea and great for our animals to be
able to play with the ice now the snow days seem to be over.
“Polar bears do not need ice and snow all year round. In the wild during
the artic summer they may spend five to six months in an ice free
environment.”
The YWP animal ranger team and volunteers from The Ice Co spent almost
two hours offloading five tons of ice cubes.
Kim said: “We offloaded the ice cubes mostly by hand and created three
mountains of fresh water ice cubes, the largest was almost 4ft high.”
The Ice Co learnt that animals adore playing with the different textures
so donated ice to the park, at Branton, near Doncaster.
The company, based at South Kirkby, delivered the ice to the park which
is 20 miles from their base.
“We sometimes have additional ice and a member of the team put forward
the idea of sending ice to the park for the animals to play with,” said
a spokesman for The Ice Co.
“We have our own frozen transport division who can drop it off on their
delivery rounds.”
“We love to see how the animals respond.”
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