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Polar bears’ personalities start to show after move to Staffordshire park
Head keeper Yaz Walker noticed the bear cubs are ‘bizarrely enjoying playing with traffic cones’ in their new five-acre habitat in Staffordshire.
Christmas Day keeps park rangers busy with festive presents for zoo animals
UK zoos having been getting into the Christmas spirit by giving out presents to their animals, including snacks, aftershave and used kayaks.
Canadian polar bears dying in high numbers, study finds
Research focused on Canada’s Western Hudson Bay, home to Churchill, known as the ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World’.
Tourist injured in polar bear attack on Norwegian island
The French woman was part of a tour group of 25 people camping at Sveasletta, in the central part of the Svalbard archipelago.
Ancient skull reveals how all brown bears carry genes of polar cousin
Researchers were able to obtain DNA from the skull of a young polar bear that lived 100,000 years ago.
It’s a boy: UK’s youngest polar bear cub confirmed as male in first health check
Vets at the Highland Wildlife Park announced the three-month-old cub is a boy following routine examination.
Wildlife park releases new footage of month-old polar bear cub
The cub was born to mother, Victoria, and father, Arktos, at the Highland Wildlife Park in December.
Second cub for polar bear mother Victoria at the Highland Wildlife Park
In footage released by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, the cub can be seen cuddling with his mum at the park in the Cairngorms.
600kg polar bear undergoes dental surgery at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Sisu will now have a ‘pain and infection free tooth for the rest of his life’, according to a dentist.
Yorkshire park becomes second largest polar bear centre in the world
It comes after the arrival of three cubs and their mother the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster.