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Polar bear twin cubs born last December at the Yagiyama Zoological Park in this northeast Japan city were introduced to media ...
In October 1955, a polar bear cub, just seven months old, arrived in Madras. It was named Snejhok, Russian for ‘little snow’. According to an article published in The Hindu on October 10 ...
The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, had been receiving geriatric care at ...
The predator bolted but soon slumped into the snowdrifts, its broad frame motionless beneath the Arctic sky. The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard ...
Nunavut’s new polar bear licence plates have been unveiled. Community Services Minister David Akeeagok held up the new design Tuesday during meetings with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. at the Aqsarniit ...
With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...
OSLO - A pioneering research mission is underway in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the impact of pollutants ...
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo has responded to a video circulating on social media of a polar bear that is visibly drooling, panting and lethargic in its enclosure. Spring is mating ...
The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, had been receiving geriatric care at the ...
A Minnesota zoo responded to claims that one of its animals, Neil the polar bear, is ill and not being cared for properly. Screengrab from Como Park Zoo and Conservatory's Facebook post.