The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo said that a necropsy report found that the bear drowned after sustaining a “crushing injury” to his trachea Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

Zoo staff memorialized the well-known bear in a Facebook post. Baffin, a 7-year-old male, was roughhousing with 8-year-old Siku in a pond at the Calgary Zoo when the tragic event occurred. Siku ...

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — A necropsy has shown that a polar bear at a zoo in western Canada died by drowning after his throat was crushed by a fellow bear in rough play considered normal for the massive ...

Baffin the polar bear was seven-years-old when his trachea was crushed while roughhousing with one of his penmates. Reading time 2 minutes The death of a polar bear at a Calgary zoo was due to horse ...

CALGARY, Alberta - A polar bear at the Calgary Zoo in Canada died after getting injured in rough play with another polar bear, a necropsy confirmed. Zoo officials said that the 7-year-old male polar ...

A beloved polar bear at a Canada zoo died suddenly by drowning this week. According to the Calgary Zoo in Calgary, Alberta, Baffin, a 7-year-old male polar bear, died by drowning following a crushing ...

A polar bear has died after engaging in "rough play” with another polar bear at a Canadian zoo. The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced in a news release on Tuesday, July 23, that one if its 7-year ...