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To remove the algae, the zoo first sprayed the two bears with hydrogen peroxide. [11] That same year in 2004, controversies started over the polar bear enclosure at the zoo and Inuka and Sheba's behaviour. The enclosure was a mere size of 391 m 2 compared to its huge Arctic habitat which can spread an area of over 80,000 km 2.
In February 1979, young polar bear twins (Nuka, a female, and Siku, a male) joined Binky in his enclosure. [11] [12] Binky got along poorly with Siku, however, so Siku was given to a zoo in Morelia, Mexico, in 1981. [13] [14] As a full-grown bear, Binky weighed 1,200 pounds. [12] He was an aggressive bear; in 1980, he bit off a zoo employee's ...
Binky, a male polar bear at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, became famous in the summer of 1994 after mauling several zoo visitors who, disregarding safety bars and signs, got too close to the bear's enclosure. Brumas, a female polar bear (born November 1949), was the first baby polar bear to be successfully reared in the United Kingdom.
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The zoo attracted some attention, even outside Alaska, in 1994 when Binky, then one of the zoo's polar bears, injured several visitors who entered his enclosure, famously pacing with an Australian woman's shoe dangling from his mouth (the current polar bear exhibit is human-proof). In 1997, Annabelle died, leaving her companion, Maggie alone. [4]
A female polar bear "died from a broken heart" at SeaWorld San Diego on Tuesday, just months after her best friend of 20 years was transferred to another zoo, according to People for the Ethical ...
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A reclining lion in a zoo enclosure, c. 1940s. Polar bear splashing in water in an enclosure. With the advent of World War 2, the period 1939 – 1945 saw the zoo trying to survive. Attendance was down, and animal importation and supplying zoo animals with food were low on the New Zealand Government's list of priorities.