Polar Bear Baffin Dies At Zoo

Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo Interim CEO Jamie Dorgan talks about the sudden death of one of the zoo's polar bears - Baffin.

[@anthonyg2822]

So sad💔rest in peace Baffin ❤

[@rebekahwilson5760]

That’s so weird Yet so strange bc I was there the day before he died

[@carinep.4520]

Another dead animal in this zoo…. There is a problem as over the years multiple animals have died prematurely. Hoping some type of investigation will be held and that wild animals such as polar bear that belong in the artic stay where they should be living.. not in a small enclosure compared to the vast ice fields of the north.

[@Wapitimodels]

Let me get this straight . So 2 days ago Calgary Herald you told us viewer's that "calgary zoo polar bears thriving in summer heat " and now 1 is dead eh? So the staff member that spoke on behalf of that polar bear should be immediately terminated from his/her position.

[@beariion]

The polar bear didn't even die from heat, it died fighting another polar bear and drowned. What does the heat have to do with it??

[@LaOwlett]

Polar bears don't live on glaciers or ice flows. They only use them in the winter, when sea lions and seals use them. Otherwise they can handle hot temperatures, so long as they have a place to cool off - which is what their pool does. Baffin died wrestling with his habitat mate in the pool, not from heat. You just made up an entirely false story about how Baffin's death was related to heat, and then called on people to be fired... even though that's not what happened. Did you even watch this report?!

[@christineatherton1376]

You are crazy you don't know any more about the passing cause than any one else

[@traceyaneefication]

do polar bears live that south obviously it’s too hot for them if you’re going to keep wild animals in captivity then please do better did you not realize they would fight

[@SHERRY0010]

Polar bears do not belong in zoos!

[@beariion]

They were orphans. They can't and won't survive in the wild.

[@FirstNameLastName-hy1pf]

Ukrainians also do not belong in zoos! But real life is telling other things.

[@jasonbrophy7921]

History proved it was a bad idea and here we go again less than a year later,ignorant af

[@10warden]

as tourists don't belong in Polar bear country.

[@SHERRY0010]

@@beariion obviously they don’t prosper in a zoo either .

[@wheathusk2499]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 😢😢😢😢

[@samanthakl447]

Oh no 😢💔

[@fuggleradventures5820]

Oh no sounds like accident happened which does happen and it happens in the wild as well or he had a medical episode