Winnipeg Free Press By: Rosanna Hempel
Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press
Milania Porpiglia meets a tiger as the Assiniboine Park Zoo reopened Saturday for the first time since it was forced to close under COVID-19 public-health orders in mid-November.
Families and onlookers gasped, laughed and shrieked as a curious polar bear at the Assiniboine Park Zoo pressed its face near a viewing barrier, only inches away from young Milania Porpiglia on Saturday morning. Within minutes, two bears gave the delighted visitors a close-up play-fighting show, standing on their hind legs.
Families and onlookers gasped, laughed and shrieked as a curious polar bear at the Assiniboine Park Zoo pressed its face near a viewing barrier, only inches away from young Milania Porpiglia on Saturday morning. Within minutes, two bears gave the delighted visitors a close-up play-fighting show, standing on their hind legs.