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Ueno Zoo to exhibit hibernating bear directly to visitors

Ueno Zoo will start exhibiting an Asiatic black bear in hibernation in such a way that visitors can see it directly, becoming the first zoo in Japan to do so. Last winter, Ueno Zoo successfully showed one of its three black bears, Ku, hibernating in a... ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, Jan 26 2008

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