Yesterday Wang the polar bear passed away at the Johannesburg Zoo. AAISHA DADI PATEL met his keeper, carnivore curator Agnes Maluleke, to hear more about Africa's last polar bear.
"He weighed more than 300kg but he never used it to intimidate people. He never scared anyone off. He would come and look at you and enjoyed interacting with people," Agnes Maluleke told me as she stood atop a boulder in the enclosure where Wang lived. Nearby there is a hammock, a jungle gym and a watery moat where Wang once played.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article