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Word eventually got around that a polar bear cub had been found, and communities near Nome as well as people in Anchorage petitioned ADF&G to let Binky stay in Alaska. Anchorage had a small zoo at the time (now known as the Alaska Zoo) with an elephant that one of the founders had won and a few other donated animals. ADF&G found ways to stall ...
USA, Wales, Alaska — Myomick was attacked and killed by a polar bear in the small village of Wales, Alaska. The attack happened at 2:30 pm. The polar bear had chased several residents of the community, before it killed the woman and her 1-year-old son. The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair. [46] [47]
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 polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for pathogens that affect the ...
A polar bear fatally attacked two people in a remote village in Alaska.
For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the planet’s largest land predators -- polar bears -- out of town is key to coexistence. In one Canadian town, polar bears that can't be ...
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.
Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history. In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay.