KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Zoo’s new polar bear will officially make his public debut this week.
Nuniq, an 1,100-pound male polar bear, will be on display at the zoo beginning Thursday — just in time for his fourth birthday on Saturday, the zoo said in a news release.
He had to quarantine for 30 days after arriving from the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently received a clean bill of health, according to the zoo.
Nuniq will join Berlin, a 31-year-old female polar bear, in the zoo’s Polar Bear Passage, an 18,000-square-feet enclosure built in 2010 to accommodate as many as three adult bears.
Berlin has lived alone since the zoo’s last polar bear, Bam Bam, died in February 2019 from liver cancer.
