Necropsy results set to be announced Tuesday for Calgary zoo’s polar bear

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By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted July 23, 2024 10:07 am

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'Baffin nan polar carnivore dies astatine nan Calgary Zoo'

6:34 Baffin nan polar carnivore dies astatine nan Calgary Zoo

WATCH ABOVE: (From July 19, 2024) One of nan 2 polar bears astatine nan Calgary Zoo, a antheral named Baffin, died Friday. Jamie Dorgan, nan zoo’s interim main executive serviceman and main operating officer, explains what happened.

The results of a necropsy are expected to beryllium announced coming aft nan decease of a polar bear astatine Calgary’s zoo.

The Wilder Institute and nan Calgary Zoo opportunity seven-year-old Baffin did not resurface from a excavation aft playing pinch different polar carnivore connected Friday.

The zoo says its animal wellness squad and an independent pathologist person completed a necropsy.

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It said past week that Baffin was sparring pinch his enclosure mate, eight-year-old Siku, earlier being recovered dead.

Baffin and Siku were transferred from Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo to Calgary successful 2023.

They were moved to a caller polar carnivore residence successful a redeveloped area astatine Calgary’s zoo known arsenic Wild Canada that opened successful December.

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