TITLE

Therapy for the bear

PUB. DATE

January 1995

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;1/30/95, Vol. 22 Issue 7, p26

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

States that Snowball, one of the Calgary Zoo's two polar bears, just paces its days away. How he may just be bored; What the zoo is doing to try to liven him up.

ACCESSION #

9502227681

Tags: POLAR bear

 

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