San Diego's polar bear project takes a plunge

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

SAN DIEGO Bonnie was pacing again last week. She's still a magnificent 480-pound carnivore, but she was supposed to be a lot more.

This was to be the summer for the two adult polar bears and two polar bear cubs at the San Diego Zoo to become headliners.

But it has not turned out that way. Sickness, death, odd behavior and a certain mammalian stubbornness have turned the new $5 million Polar Bear Plunge into the most ill-starred venture in the history of this world-famous zoo. In June, amid much hoopla, the zoo opened the 2.2-acre enclosure touted as a "veritable arctic kingdom," with a ...

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