Family of black bears play on frozen lake at park enclosure amid cold snap A family of North American black bears at a Bedfordshire safari park have been spotted playing on an icy lake as they embraced the cold weather.
Mother bear Phoenix and her four yearlings, Harvard, Maple, Colorado and Aspen, were seen rolling around, play fighting and losing their balance after a lake in their enclosure at Woburn Safari Park froze over.
Keepers at the park said the animals “had a unique reaction to the ice” while the young bears engaged in playful sparring and “took advantage of their opponents’ unsteady footing on the icy terrain”.
The average low in northern Scotland for this time of year is about 0.3C, while for England, overnight lows are about 1.5C to 1.6C.
