On my trip to Alaska a year ago, I was fortunate enough to take a trip by plane to a remote location to observe brown bears in the wild. Out of jealousy of not going, my lovely wife and our good friends Mike and Andrea insist their trip to the Anchorage Zoo was pretty much the same experience. So I present to you the opportunity to put this argument to rest. Below are sets of photos from both experiences.
Here you will find the pictures of very bored and unchallenged bears held in captivity.
Here you will find happy and energetic bears living the life of the wild.
To help further the argument, here is a photo of their ride to the zoo and mine to the wild.
Here is a photo of my foot print next to that of a bear that just walked past us. To give you an idea of how big they are, I wear a size 12.
Team Fricke 
Grt back to work!
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Why do you always have to win? You are right though. Seeing animals in the wild in Africa was much better than all my zoo visits put together.
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I don’t always HAVE to win, it just happens to be that I am almost always right.
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Mom you broke your arm at the zoo in south Africa. How could you remember what those animals were like?
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That’s what made all of the wild animals that much more enjoyable…the pain killers. 🙂
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You all ‘win’!!! The ‘in the wild’ look better, but I would have joined the other group in going to the zoo 🙂
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