Two aging female Syrian bears from Washington, D.C. have arrived at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo where they will be mated with the zoo’s two male Syrian bears, the zoo’s director Prof. Aharon Shulov of the Hebrew University reported this week.
The bears are a gift of the National Zoological Park in Washington. Zoo officials there who had waited in vain for over 29 years for an offspring of this rare animal discovered only recently that the two bears were both females.
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