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World's oldest polar bear dies

Updated on 18 November 2008

Source PA News

The world's oldest polar bear has died at a Canadian zoo.

Zoo co-ordinator Gordon Glover at Winnipeg, Manitoba's Assiniboine Park Zoo said polar bear Debby was put to sleep on Monday after suffering from several strokes and organ failure.

The 42-year-old polar bear was born in the Russian Arctic in 1966. She went to Winnipeg's zoo as an orphan a year later.

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