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A polar bear gets a summer treat -- apples encased in a block of ice -- at Osaka's Tennoji Zoo. ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Tue, Aug 19 2008

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07 Jun 07 visit Polar Bear Shake  »  YouTube videoA polar bear at the Yokohama Zoo around closing time.
26 Nov 08 visit National › Polar bear sent to impregnate another at zoo found to be female  »  Japan Today A 4-year-old polar bear named Tsuyoshi sent from a zoo in Sapporo to impregnate a female polar bear at a zoo in the city of…
20 Apr 08 visit World › Canada's polar bears in dire straits: WWF  »  Japan Today Some of Canada's polar bear populations risk being wiped out within four decades because of climate change and human activity including hunting, the World Wide…
06 Oct 08 visit Some Green Polar Bears and Long Necked Geese,Some Humpty Backed Camels and  »  Porcelain Monkey A small article in The Japan Times newspaper September 24 page 3 caught my attention.Apparently visitors to Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens here in Nagoya are "shocked by the colour" of the polar bears.The polar bears are no longer white after...
20 Jun 08 visit Technology › Hyundai offers 3D TV for Japan market with limited programming  »  Japan Today Badminton matches look so real playing on Hyundai's new 3-D TV that you may reflexively dodge the virtual shuttlecock. A polar bear pawing the glass…
12 Sep 08 visit Polar Bears Turn Green  »  Japan Visitor 北極グマMaking the news in the UK were the green polar bears of Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya.The bears' normally white fur has turned green due to the growth of an algae in their pond.When the hot weather in Nagoya ends, the algae will disappear and t...

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