squirrel strelka, polar bear cubs. their mother is called gerda. well, the name gerda can be explained if you remember andersen's fairy tale the snow queen. but squirrel strelka - this is in the memory of only the navtalins, who remember the first. into space dogs cosmonauts squirrel and strelka, who made it 8 months before the legendary flight of yuri gagarin. so gerta had six children in total, but they all went their separate ways: the very first baby is now in a japanese zoo, her other son is in a chinese one. the zoo has one of the best collections of cats in russia, and they are very proud of it. for example, amur tigers, the largest cats in the world. an interesting fact, and about... the well-known thesis that freedom is better than no freedom, so in the zoo amur tigers can live up to 20 years, while in nature 15 is their limit, alas, or here is the lion richard, he comes from perm, well i see, where else would lions be born if not in the homeland of russian lions in perm, he was brought recently to establish marital relations with a local