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In 2009, a woman was mauled by polar bears after jumping into their exhibit. She was rushed to the hospital and survived. [20] In 2023, employees from the zoo's education department made serious allegations of exploitation and disrespect.
A man has been seriously injured after trying to prevent a polar bear from attacking his wife in northern Ontario, Canada. On Tuesday, Dec. 3, before 5 a.m. local time, an adult male and an adult ...
There are an estimated 17,000 polar bears across Canada; of the world’s total estimated population of 26,000. A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones (AP)
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 male polar bear cub named Rasputin was relocated from Moscow to the Nuremberg Zoo in December 2008 for what was thought to be an extended stay before his permanent move to the Zoo Aquarium de Madrid. Originally meant to remain in Germany for only a year, the male bear—called "Raspi" by fans—shared Flocke's enclosure.
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The exhibit used to house the maned wolf and Mexican wolf but both species were removed when the Pritzer Family Children's Zoo opened its own red wolf habitat in 2005. The exhibit closed in winter 2014 as work began on the new polar bear and penguin habitats over the same site. The habitat re-opened in late 2016. [77]
Kelly Murphy was snowboarding in Japan's Hakuba 47 Winter Sports Park near the city of Nagano when what is believed to have been an Asian black bear jumped out from behind the top of a mountain ...