A bear rescued from a bombed-out zoo in Ukraine has arrived at his new home in Scotland. Yampil, a 12-year-old Asiatic black bear, quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon when he arrived at the zoo outside Edinburgh. The refugee bear was one of the sole survivors of a zoo that was destroyed during fighting in 2022 in the Donetsk region. People who rescued the bear named for his former village say he is lucky to be alive. He was evacuated to a Polish zoo, then a wildlife rescue in Belgium before arriving in Scotland.
LONDON (AP) An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine a rare Asiatic black bear arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon. The 12-year-old Yampil was named for a village in the Donetsk region where he was one of the […]
LONDON An Asiatic black bear which was found in an abandoned zoo in eastern Ukraine five months after Russia's invasion in 2022, arrived at his new permanent home in Scotland on Friday (Jan 12). Yampil, named after the village in the Donetsk region where he was found, was one of only a few out of 200 animals at the.
A bear rescued from a bombed-out zoo in Ukraine has arrived at his new home in Scotland. Yampil, a 12-year-old Asiatic black bear, quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon when he arrived at the zoo outside Edinburgh. The refugee bear was one of the sole survivors of a zoo that was destroyed during fighting in 2022 in the Donetsk region. People who rescued the bear named for his former village say he is lucky to be alive. He was evacuated to a Polish zoo, then a wildlife rescue in Belgium before arriving in Scotland.
An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucum