Arctic Animals on Display in Guangzhou Mall | Caixin
Liang Yingfei—Caixin
The Grandview Polar Sea World inside the mall of the same name is located in China’s tropical city of Guangzhou. The aquarium is home to several polar animals including penguins, a nordic fox, harbor seals, and “Pizza,” a polar bear. Recently, a Chinese animal welfare group wrote a letter to the province’s governor calling Pizza “the saddest polar bear in China.” The letter went viral on Chinese social media. Liang spent time at the aquarium and produced this gallery of images, many of them reminiscent of photography of the fateful journey to the South Pole by Ernest Shackleton on the Nimrod or Robert Falcon Scott on the Terra Nova.
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The Grandview Polar Sea World inside the mall of the same name is located in China’s tropical city of Guangzhou. The aquarium is home to several polar animals including penguins, a nordic fox, harbor seals, and “Pizza,” a polar bear. Recently, a Chinese animal welfare group wrote a letter to the province’s governor calling Pizza “the saddest polar bear in China.” The letter went viral on Chinese social media. Liang spent time at the aquarium and produced this gallery of images, many of them reminiscent of photography of the fateful journey to the South Pole by Ernest Shackleton on the Nimrod or Robert Falcon Scott on the Terra Nova.