Lovely to watch this massive achievement by the Yorkshire Wildlife Park who got Amu,Amu, Kai, Riku and Hanako out of that Japanese hell hole where they'd 'lived' for years. So sad all four have now passed, Hanoko the last survivor today. Before people start spouting about animal rights, zoos are bad blah blah blah, look at where these bares came from and where they finished up. zoos at opposite ends of the spectrum. Ussuri Brown Bears can live up to 37 years, but the poor diet and awful condtions in Japan took their toll on the four bears. All I believed had servere arthristis and heart disease issues and were treated for these in the UK. One by one decisions had to be taken to end their suffering but, YWP gave them a home, food, and space to move. the last 14 months of Hanokos life was probably the best she had. What a shame they could have come earlier.
The bad ZOO's give bad reputation to others! This is amazing place! And they keep rescued animals! Giving beautiful homes to so many badly used creatures. Shame on Japan! They could have done better! It is not the question of money but knowledge really and compassion. Hard to believe such an intelligent nation is still lacking on that front...and it the same throughout the rest of the Asia...the evil ppl do over there is unthinkable...and it takes those few plus outsiders to help starting sorting that mess....
They have no idea what these bears went through! Life in a hell hole...most of their lives in concrete, barren cages...That should be classified as criminal activity and facility fined ...BUT unfortunately we do not have a global authority to police that...if we do, they do nothing...
How fantastic! You could see the excitement in the one bears eyes. It looked like he was smiling, too! They really are just oversized dogs.....sort of, lol!
These bears are from the Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, it was so disheartening to see them there like that, also the dogs they keep... Awesome to know they are out of there and in a better place. Fortunately there are still many of their kind wild in nature in Hokkaido.
I am VERY disappointed seeing how Japanese treat their captive animals! The enclosures for elephants are just shocking! And they are very often alone for years and years on concrete floors! They could do much better than that! They are better than that! For some reason they are lacking in compassion for the wild creatures....still....
@@Glen-zl5zt The Hyenas are in the new section. The Ussuris' reserve is now the Project Polar 2 reserve, with a mother Polar Bear and her three cubs, who needed to be rehomed from a zoo in Europe which was no longer able to keep them.
I can spend an hour of my visits toYWP(on Annual Pass) watching The Boys playing together and swimming. Horrible to realise they reached middle-age before being given the chance to do either.
what a wonderful achievement and to see how these precious animals will love what they been given, a new life, caring humans,supply of decent healthy food, warm place to lay and have a good sleep, to be able to live the dream. Cheers everyone.
Love the video, in seeing them being removed and then located in their new home. Would love to see a bit more footage of them all coming out and enjoying the new home thought
Wow! and Wow! This was such an important rescue!! THANK YOU! And you truly over did yourself! Such a huge, amazing enclosure! And this is not a pool! It is a huge lake! I am full of awe what you have prepared for these beautiful bears! Thank you will never be enough...All the very best for the future...xoxoxo
I for one, am not opposed to all zoos. Yes, there are some really horrible ones out there who don't care for and love the animals, but there are many that do. The Columbus Zoo even has a conservation program. I think that a lot of species would be extinct right now if there weren't programs like that one to keep them from being totally wiped out. It's usually in foreign zoos, where the animals aren't taken care of properly. That's just my thoughts on zoos and the animals in them. This just makes me SO happy that these 4 are finally somewhere they can live a happier and healthier life. Sure I would rather all animals be in their natural habitat, but we humans are a greedy lot and usually pay no mind to the animals or the place they call home.
Lovely video except in my opinion for the music so loud as difficult to hear the commentator. Please consider lowering or omitting the music in your otherwise super videos. Best wishes.
They did. Yorkshire Wildlife Park is dedicated to rescuing animals in need and caring for/breeding critically endangered ones as well as supporting conservation work around the World. They doubled their weight and even went into partial hibernation in the Winter, the first time they had been healthy enough to so so. Stimulating toys and ways of hiding their food or making it a chllenge to reach led to the Boys being active and adventurous despite some physical limitations. Riku in particular was smart at figuring out easier ways to get the food than intended (why climb to reach a platform when you can just shake the pole so the food works its way to the edge and falls off?). Kai was the first to try new things and Riku would watch carefully to see if it was safe. Sadly, the Bears' health issues were even worse than realised, with years of terrible nutrition and confined concrete cages leading to weak hearts, extremely bad arthritis and porous bones. They were given the best veterinary care and looked after with love, good food and plenty of opportunity to play and learn to live life to the full. However, the following year one began limping badly despite his medication and was reluctant to go outside. When he was scanned they saw his bones were in such bad condition it was decided not to wake him up because he could never have a good quality of life again. His brother, who had always seemed the less agile one with worse arthritis, pined for him and grew unwell and had to be euthanised about six weeks later despite the best care possible. They'd even tried to bring old Hanako to the Boys' part of the reserve to keep him company but she wanted nothing to do with him. As Winter approached the decision was taken to euthanise old Hanako, already past the expected lifespan, whose health had also deteriorated. They had been loved, stimulated and given the chance to live like Bears again to the best of their physical ability. When the veterinary care was not enough to prevent them future suffering they were sadly let go after at least having had a short time of happiness.
Sooo happy to see the bears in a much better place and looking forward to seeing them next week but are scooters allowed in Park I will careful and it will help me a lot more I would like do have autism and I get crazy like leg pain i it’s sounds weird but it’s help me
Did you see how they keep elephants over there?? Absolutely Heart breaking!! I really like Japan and Japanese people. BUT they are same in their attitude to wildlife as the rest of Asian countries...no compassion, no understanding to speak off...It doesn't seem to change....very very disappointing!!
@@joannapocock6055 Check the Fans of Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Facebook. Members share photos and videos and the Boys are a very popular subject. Some contributors are professional photographers, so great shots and chat about what the animals were up to, any concerns etc
Why don't these bears get released in the Japanese forest?? There are many wild bears in Japan but some of them are kept in cages? I don't get why they are in cages in the first place. Are they too wild or too violent to be free in Japanese mountain forest? I don't know the background to this rescue story.
Lewt Moo They are too damaged(see my reply above). They were afraid to step on grass, kept "spinning", as they had to in their old cages, even though now in roomy surroundings, hadn't experienced water(apart from small drinking bowls) - food was floated in drums to get them used to touching water- and they have skeleto-muscular problems requiring close veterinary supervision. Their progress to the end of this video took many weeks of carefully designed remedial work. They have come on even further since then, even seeming to go into partial hibernation for the first time in their lives this year, but would never survive the wild. They love where they are, which provides all they need, including carefully designed exercise and mental stimulation. They had been exhibits outside a Japanese Folk Museum since they were small cubs, so YWP IS the wild to them, but with caring keepers!
@@moragmckay7673 Thank you for this thorough reply. We all benefit from it! And yes. None of the captive animals can be released into the wild. There may be a tiny percentage of some animals, if they are rehabilitated and are not too damaged....it depends on the animal as well...It is truly unthinkable that a ZOO which suppose to care for wildlife can have such poor standards of keeping them and can do so much damage to creatures in their care! Shocking really disregard for their precious lives...
@@Nitka022 Where they came from was not a zoo. They didn't have animal experts to care for them or the room to keep them the way they should. In their favour, the museum did reach out to Wild Welfare to find a suitable home, but the conditions they were kept in reflected past ignorance about animal care. They were in the Folk Museum to represent an old tradition in some parts of Japan (possibly still happening despite the Ussuri Bears' protected status there except in the pursuit of this tradition). Hunters from a village would seek out a mother bear in the den with two cubs, kill the mother and take the cubs back to the village where they were reared for two years. Then a special festival was held at which the Bears were killed. This practice was believed to bring good fortune to the village. Fortunately attitudes have changed and the Museum realised the Bears needed a better life than they could provide. The sad ending to the story is that they enjoyed only just over a year before one by one their health problems were too severe to give them a good quality of life and over the space of about four months they had to be euthanised. Their time at YWP was very happy and full of love, with the best care possible to help them enjoy life until it was no longer in their best interests.
Oh, I so wish I was the judge and jury to dish out the punishment to humans who are cruel to animals.......I wouldn’t inflict physical harm, just stick them in a cage in the middle of the jungle then throw them crap food and dirty water, just for a week.
Lovely to watch this massive achievement by the Yorkshire Wildlife Park who got Amu,Amu, Kai, Riku and Hanako out of that Japanese hell hole where they'd 'lived' for years. So sad all four have now passed, Hanoko the last survivor today. Before people start spouting about animal rights, zoos are bad blah blah blah, look at where these bares came from and where they finished up. zoos at opposite ends of the spectrum. Ussuri Brown Bears can live up to 37 years, but the poor diet and awful condtions in Japan took their toll on the four bears. All I believed had servere arthristis and heart disease issues and were treated for these in the UK. One by one decisions had to be taken to end their suffering but, YWP gave them a home, food, and space to move. the last 14 months of Hanokos life was probably the best she had. What a shame they could have come earlier.
The bad ZOO's give bad reputation to others! This is amazing place! And they keep rescued animals! Giving beautiful homes to so many badly used creatures. Shame on Japan! They could have done better! It is not the question of money but knowledge really and compassion. Hard to believe such an intelligent nation is still lacking on that front...and it the same throughout the rest of the Asia...the evil ppl do over there is unthinkable...and it takes those few plus outsiders to help starting sorting that mess....
Why would anyone give a thumbs down to such a positive story.
They have no idea what these bears went through! Life in a hell hole...most of their lives in concrete, barren cages...That should be classified as criminal activity and facility fined ...BUT unfortunately we do not have a global authority to police that...if we do, they do nothing...
probably poachers
Wonderful to see the bears free and happy! Thank you for all the efforts of the rescuers !
Poor Pete is sad
Thank God ,thank God, thank God, thank God, for people like YOU we can't lose these bears people don't realize that we need them.
Thank God the bear is rescued and brought to the UK, relief!
Well done in liberating these beautiful animals.
I love it when people resume these animals I have the upmost love for the many people that give their service. THANK YOU
So wonderful, thank you so much 🍀🍀🍀💚💚💚💚🇦🇹🇦🇹
How fantastic! You could see the excitement in the one bears eyes. It looked like he was smiling, too! They really are just oversized dogs.....sort of, lol!
purrrrson yes they are like dogs, with their noses and sense of smell is similar too. Relief seeing them freed 🐻❤️
I come there every year
I was only young but I was there when the lions arrived
I think it such a good place!
God bless you for saving the bears. Nice wildlife park.
wow wow wow well done to all that helped rescue these gorgeous bears they do look happy now
Well done 😭😭😭 thanks so much for YWP 🙏🙏🙏
These bears are from the Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, it was so disheartening to see them there like that, also the dogs they keep... Awesome to know they are out of there and in a better place. Fortunately there are still many of their kind wild in nature in Hokkaido.
I am VERY disappointed seeing how Japanese treat their captive animals! The enclosures for elephants are just shocking! And they are very often alone for years and years on concrete floors! They could do much better than that! They are better than that! For some reason they are lacking in compassion for the wild creatures....still....
can just about see to type, how emotional watching that bear swim, thanks so much for rescuing them.
That's how I feel, as well. The older I get, the more animals mean to me. Here's to Earth getting the triage she needs - and soon.
Paz y luz 💫
What an incredible video. So privaleged so live so close to this park
Bless those who are good to living things in this world... animals, trees and yes... each other. 😊❤
I went to see these today, sadly they were inside but was still nice :)
I'm going to see the bears ok in August I'm so excite 😄
God bless all animals and all good people ♥️♥️♥️💓🐾💓🐾💓🐾
What a great story. Wishing them a long happy new life ❤️❤️
Where they are going to live looks absolutely wonderful - so good to see that they look so happy and relaxed !!
Poor bears. They can live nice lives now. Love YWP
1Coby I actually go there to Yorkshire willd life
1Coby there all dead mate came in bad shape there’s hyenas in there old pen now
@@Glen-zl5zt The Hyenas are in the new section. The Ussuris' reserve is now the Project Polar 2 reserve, with a mother Polar Bear and her three cubs, who needed to be rehomed from a zoo in Europe which was no longer able to keep them.
watching him finding the water.....fantastic reaction.....well done
Such majestic creatures 😍
Really human beings God bless you you guys are great.
Well done agaIn YWL great work
I can spend an hour of my visits toYWP(on Annual Pass) watching The Boys playing together and swimming. Horrible to realise they reached middle-age before being given the chance to do either.
what a wonderful achievement and to see how these precious animals will love what they been given, a new life, caring humans,supply of decent healthy food, warm place to lay and have a good sleep, to be able to live the dream. Cheers everyone.
4:36 that bear is like Konnichiwa!
This is Yorkshire for ya 💪🏻
I love how bears that have only lived in cages all their lives seem to go to water as soon as they are given a sort of freedom.
Bravi 👏 È così bello vederli liberi in natura! Very good job 👍
I will have to go back and see these beauties again soon
Well Done. Thank You.
This video wasn’t long enough 🥰 they look so happy 💕
Edit... just read short film 😂
I come here every year and when i get i job i really wanna be a zoologist that works here
I really like brown bears
Love the video, in seeing them being removed and then located in their new home. Would love to see a bit more footage of them all coming out and enjoying the new home thought
英語がそれほど理解できないので何言ってんのか全然分からないが
日本の狭くて暗いコンクリート製の住みかから自然溢れる広くて暮らしやすい場所に移動したのは分かった
以前にホッキョクグマのニッサンくんが移動した動画も拝見させてもらったがニッサンくんが通路を恐る恐る通ってたのに対して走るように通ってたのが印象的だ
言葉を発せない彼らに代わって例を言われて欲しい
どうもありがとう！
ありがとうございました!
Wow! and Wow! This was such an important rescue!! THANK YOU! And you truly over did yourself! Such a huge, amazing enclosure! And this is not a pool! It is a huge lake! I am full of awe what you have prepared for these beautiful bears! Thank you will never be enough...All the very best for the future...xoxoxo
Love seeing the one enjoying his swim in the lake 💖💝💖👍👍👍
This is incredible 😭 you guys do fantastic work 👌🏻
I'm Crying 😢😢😢
Coming to you next Monday for around the 37th time. Just as exciting as my first visit. Can’t wait to see your bears x
I’m actually a fan of grizzly bears 🐻 and polar bears 🐻
I love ALL bears! 🐻🐻
You wunderful people!!!
Ive been there for my school trip
thank god..❤
WOW!
Just wow!
I for one, am not opposed to all zoos. Yes, there are some really horrible ones out there who don't care for and love the animals, but there are many that do. The Columbus Zoo even has a conservation program. I think that a lot of species would be extinct right now if there weren't programs like that one to keep them from being totally wiped out. It's usually in foreign zoos, where the animals aren't taken care of properly. That's just my thoughts on zoos and the animals in them. This just makes me SO happy that these 4 are finally somewhere they can live a happier and healthier life. Sure I would rather all animals be in their natural habitat, but we humans are a greedy lot and usually pay no mind to the animals or the place they call home.
Simply beautiful 👍🏼🥰
I love Pete
Lovely video except in my opinion for the music so loud as difficult to hear the commentator. Please consider lowering or omitting the music in your otherwise super videos. Best wishes.
Finally the life they deserve as bears !
How sickening to see them in cages
Iove
I hope they found a good home
They did. Yorkshire Wildlife Park is dedicated to rescuing animals in need and caring for/breeding critically endangered ones as well as supporting conservation work around the World.
They doubled their weight and even went into partial hibernation in the Winter, the first time they had been healthy enough to so so. Stimulating toys and ways of hiding their food or making it a chllenge to reach led to the Boys being active and adventurous despite some physical limitations. Riku in particular was smart at figuring out easier ways to get the food than intended (why climb to reach a platform when you can just shake the pole so the food works its way to the edge and falls off?). Kai was the first to try new things and Riku would watch carefully to see if it was safe.
Sadly, the Bears' health issues were even worse than realised, with years of terrible nutrition and confined concrete cages leading to weak hearts, extremely bad arthritis and porous bones. They were given the best veterinary care and looked after with love, good food and plenty of opportunity to play and learn to live life to the full. However, the following year one began limping badly despite his medication and was reluctant to go outside. When he was scanned they saw his bones were in such bad condition it was decided not to wake him up because he could never have a good quality of life again. His brother, who had always seemed the less agile one with worse arthritis, pined for him and grew unwell and had to be euthanised about six weeks later despite the best care possible. They'd even tried to bring old Hanako to the Boys' part of the reserve to keep him company but she wanted nothing to do with him.
As Winter approached the decision was taken to euthanise old Hanako, already past the expected lifespan, whose health had also deteriorated.
They had been loved, stimulated and given the chance to live like Bears again to the best of their physical ability. When the veterinary care was not enough to prevent them future suffering they were sadly let go after at least having had a short time of happiness.
Finqkly bear freedom..tqvm support
Sooo happy to see the bears in a much better place and looking forward to seeing them next week but are scooters allowed in Park I will careful and it will help me a lot more I would like do have autism and I get crazy like leg pain i it’s sounds weird but it’s help me
White Wolf you’re best off calling or emailing the Park direct, they might miss comments on here for queries like this :)
Danielle A I can’t I’m 14 so I cant
White Wolf get the adult who’s going with you to ask?
Danielle A it’s too late we’re going today but we were going Tuesday
Heroes
Sorry…and thank you…
From Hokkaido😿
I thought Japan was mostly into "researching" whales?
Oh, they'll research anything. If it's endangered, they'll pay even more to 'research' it.
Did you see how they keep elephants over there?? Absolutely Heart breaking!! I really like Japan and Japanese people. BUT they are same in their attitude to wildlife as the rest of Asian countries...no compassion, no understanding to speak off...It doesn't seem to change....very very disappointing!!
👍💕👌💖
ROAAARRR
ładnie ale gdzie są drzewa?
The Largest Ussuri Brown On Average Size Is In The Russia.
have you a film with the bears playing with each other or just being in the park with no bars between them ?
Move video updates coming soon as we follow their slow rehabilitation process :-)
Thank you and i fully understand
@@joannapocock6055 Check the Fans of Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Facebook. Members share photos and videos and the Boys are a very popular subject. Some contributors are professional photographers, so great shots and chat about what the animals were up to, any concerns etc
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*** Pete is the name of the bear
Why don't these bears get released in the Japanese forest?? There are many wild bears in Japan but some of them are kept in cages? I don't get why they are in cages in the first place. Are they too wild or too violent to be free in Japanese mountain forest? I don't know the background to this rescue story.
Lewt Moo They are too damaged(see my reply above). They were afraid to step on grass, kept "spinning", as they had to in their old cages, even though now in roomy surroundings, hadn't experienced water(apart from small drinking bowls) - food was floated in drums to get them used to touching water- and they have skeleto-muscular problems requiring close veterinary supervision. Their progress to the end of this video took many weeks of carefully designed remedial work. They have come on even further since then, even seeming to go into partial hibernation for the first time in their lives this year, but would never survive the wild. They love where they are, which provides all they need, including carefully designed exercise and mental stimulation. They had been exhibits outside a Japanese Folk Museum since they were small cubs, so YWP IS the wild to them, but with caring keepers!
@@moragmckay7673 Thank you for this thorough reply. We all benefit from it! And yes. None of the captive animals can be released into the wild. There may be a tiny percentage of some animals, if they are rehabilitated and are not too damaged....it depends on the animal as well...It is truly unthinkable that a ZOO which suppose to care for wildlife can have such poor standards of keeping them and can do so much damage to creatures in their care! Shocking really disregard for their precious lives...
@@Nitka022 Where they came from was not a zoo. They didn't have animal experts to care for them or the room to keep them the way they should. In their favour, the museum did reach out to Wild Welfare to find a suitable home, but the conditions they were kept in reflected past ignorance about animal care.
They were in the Folk Museum to represent an old tradition in some parts of Japan (possibly still happening despite the Ussuri Bears' protected status there except in the pursuit of this tradition). Hunters from a village would seek out a mother bear in the den with two cubs, kill the mother and take the cubs back to the village where they were reared for two years. Then a special festival was held at which the Bears were killed. This practice was believed to bring good fortune to the village.
Fortunately attitudes have changed and the Museum realised the Bears needed a better life than they could provide.
The sad ending to the story is that they enjoyed only just over a year before one by one their health problems were too severe to give them a good quality of life and over the space of about four months they had to be euthanised.
Their time at YWP was very happy and full of love, with the best care possible to help them enjoy life until it was no longer in their best interests.
@@moragmckay7673 Absolutely heart breaking!!!
Why are people so CRULE in the first place.. .evil people...nice job UK💖
Oh, I so wish I was the judge and jury to dish out the punishment to humans who are cruel to animals.......I wouldn’t inflict physical harm, just stick them in a cage in the middle of the jungle then throw them crap food and dirty water, just for a week.
Why were they kept in such a poor environment in an advanced country like Japan.