{"id":323937,"date":"2025-12-19T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:13:08","slug":"yorkshire-wildlife-park-welcomes-polar-bear-while-enclosure-gets-refurbished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323937\/","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":323938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-323937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}