{"id":640791,"date":"2025-12-18T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:06:11","slug":"yorkshire-wildlife-park-welcomes-polar-bear-while-enclosure-gets-refurbished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640791\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Wildlife Park welcomes polar bear while enclosure gets refurbished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wardens will first spend some time assessing whether the two bears can be safely introduced, with Brodie expected to stay for between six months and one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is important that he settles into his new home before he can meet the other polar bears,&#8221; Dr MacDonald said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any initial introduction will take place via a wire mesh to ensure all the bears are safe and relaxed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bex Brown, the park&#8217;s head of carnivores, said she is pleased how the polar bear is settling into his new surroundings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8221; It will be quite a change for Brodie, who has been on his own for a while and before that was just with his mother,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will have to learn a whole new set of polar bear social skills as he gets to know the older adult bears here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wardens will first spend some time assessing whether the two bears can be safely introduced, with Brodie expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-640791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115742138868173049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640791","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=640791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}