{"id":115566,"date":"2025-05-19T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115566\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:23:13","slug":"edinburgh-zoo-sun-bear-babu-in-remission-following-terminal-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115566\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Zoo sun bear Babu in remission following terminal cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Td(n) C($inherit) LineClamp(2,45px) D(f) rapidnofollow\" data-uuid=\"549e16a5-0689-38f5-adb3-f820a33716e7\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/polar-bear-biopsies-shed-light-053909574.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:hdln;itc:0;pos:1;sec:strm;subsec:moreforyou;cpos:20;ct:story;g:549e16a5-0689-38f5-adb3-f820a33716e7\" data-hosted-type=\"HOSTED\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"M(0) C($summaryColor) Fz(14px) Lh(1.43em) LineClamp(3,60px)\">With one foot braced on the helicopter&#8217;s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear.They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them,&#8221; Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear programme, told AFP.\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;If they have very little sea ice, they necessarily need to be on land,&#8221; he said, adding that they spend &#8220;much more time on land than they used to&#8230; 20 or 30 years ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants With one foot braced on the helicopter&#8217;s landing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,18595,1102,46616,4884,712,52074,16,15],"class_list":["post-115566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-cancer-diagnosis","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-zoo","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-sun-bear","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114537077375584016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}