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Freezer looks more like a kid's cuddly toy than a fierce polar bear, but then she's only 7 months old
Freezer looks more like a kid's cuddly toy than a fierce polar bear, but then she's only 7 months old

Freezer looks more like a kid's cuddly toy than a fierce polar bear, but then she's only 7 months old

Date6/28/1979
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Original Toronto Star caption: Freezer looks more like a kid's cuddly toy than a fierce polar bear; but then she's only 7 months old
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0116178F
Yogi, the polar bear cub is only six months old but often becomes quite ferocious at feeding time, tries to bite keeper's hand through wire screening
Yogi, the polar bear cub is only six months old but often becomes quite ferocious at feeding time, tries to bite keeper's hand through wire screening
Dutton, Don
7/10/1961
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Loek, Dick
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
10/17/1974
Orphan finds a home. The Metro Zoo has welcomed a new resident - a 5- to 6-month-old female polar bear. Her mother was shot near Repulse Bay, Northwes(...)
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Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
5/30/1981
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Beaty, Keith
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Loek, Dick
3/13/1981
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Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
1/26/1977
36 ounces of bear. Only four weeks old and weighing 18 ounces each, these bear cubs were presented to Riverdale zoo by Sudbury department of lands and(...)
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Feeny, Edwin
3/4/1961
Polar bear - Kunik
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Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
12/22/1985
Glub glub. Sanikiluaq and Bisitik, the polar bear cubs whose mother was shot in January in the Northwest Territories
Glub glub. Sanikiluaq and Bisitik, the polar bear cubs whose mother was shot in January in the Northwest Territories
McConnell, Colin
5/11/1980
Polar bear Sanikiluaq enjoyed a carrot while showing off her new cub at the Metro zoo yesterday
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Lautens, Richard
4/8/1993
Kinik the polar bear
Kinik the polar bear
Irish, Paul
3/13/1997