Was there a polar bear at the London Zoo in the 1950s?
Brumas was the first polar bear to be successfully reared in the UK and brought in a record-breaking number of visitors to London Zoo in the '50s.
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To continue with the 60 year lease would make the zoo financially impossible to sustain, which would bring us to a crisis point and I strongly suggest we do not get to that point, Mr Blackman said. The institution is the world's oldest scientific zoo, having opened in 1828 as a research facility.