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The Moscow Times: Russia’s oldest polar bear in captivity dies at 38

Published Feb. 14, 2018 at 4:23 pm

An unnamed polar bear cub is pictured with its mother, Sessi, on February 10, 2017 at the Mulhouse zoo, eastern France. The polar bear was born on November 7, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIEN BOZON

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Russia’s oldest polar bear has died at the age of 38, a zoo in Perm has announced.

Polar bear Amderma was captured in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous region in 1989 and her carers estimate she was born in 1980. After brief stays in zoos in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan, she finally found sanctuary in Perm.