Frolicking in his new home, England’s only polar bear is a picture of contentment. But moving the 75-stone animal from a Dutch zoo to this purpose-built enclosure was a tricky proposition – not least for Victor himself. With his breeding days behind him, the 15-year-old was picked to be the first occupant of an £850,000 facility at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near Doncaster, complete with an eight-metre-deep lake and swathes of grassland, designed to resemble the Arctic tundra in the summer. Scroll down for video Roar or yawn? A sleepy looking Victor the polar bear takes his first steps on English soil at Yorkshire Wildlife Park - his new home after moving from Holland
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Victor, a 1,058lb polar bear, has become England's only polar bear after moving to Doncaster from Holland
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The 15-year-old was retired from a breeding programme because he is father to nearly all of Europe's polar bears
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He has moved into a 10-acre park in Yorkshire Wildlife Park, which includes 8m deep lakes and an Arctic climate
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More polar bears will be arriving to give him some company over the next few months, park officials say
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