Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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(01-27-2019, 05:03 PM)Sanju Wrote:

(01-27-2019, 03:45 PM)Shadow Wrote: When looking at it, I can almost imagine him thinking "I have this odd feeling, that I really don´t belong here.....". We have lions in zoos here too, in Finland, and they come out to snow voluntarily. So then again it is good to know that they don´t have to be out in that weather if not liking to be there time to time. Here is now -20 Celcius btw and weather forecast is saying, that soon -40.... bears are so lucky to hibernate

In Atlas mountains, Balkan and Zagrus mountains of Iran, lion have lived in snowing habitat too. So nothing like lions don't belong in cold habitats...

OMG! w**! -20 to -40 degrees centigrade in Finland???   I'm dead hearing about cold and forget about experiencing that intense freeze even for a second not even in dreaming. That extreme temperatures in India, can only be seen in Himalayan regions like Kashmir...
The most extreme temperature experienced myself is -10 degrees for about 3 hrs in Hyderabad's snow world adventure park in artificial conditions... ooh I'm shivering here by hearing your words... ooooh!

Take care @Shadow

Well on mountains animals can come downwards when too cold at some height. In countries like Finland, you either tolerate the cold or die, what comes to animals. It´s not completely same situation, I think :) But of course lions seem to be able to adapt at least to some point, but I don´t think that they would survive in this climate. Siberian tigers have a lot more fur overall in wintertime and a lot of body fat to protect important organs :) 

-10 Celcius... that is not cold   It is a good weather to be outside and do things. There is not too cold weather you know, there are just people not dressing up enough clothes if feeling cold  But it is funny, when winter is coming, -10 feels somewhat cold. Then after some time you can go outside in t-shirt if picking up something etc. a few  minutes. Of course if longer time out, then some coat etc. is needed :)

I would say, that about -15 C starts to be cold and so on. When over -20 C there starts to be some problems with cars, especially when old batteries and if driving all the time just short distances. -30 real problems with cars, need to be quite careful... imo :)

But imagine, when we had 1939-1940 winter war with Russia (or back then Soviet Union) it was a very cold winter and soldiers had to fight while -30 to -40 celcius out there... that has been something what most people can´t imagine and hopefully never again no-one have to experience that. But maybe not more about that now, but to give you some mental images about climate here Reply