Bearing Hope: Polar Bear Denning at the Columbus Zoo

This fall, guests to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Polar Frontier region may notice that Lee and Aurora, the Zoo’s resident polar bears, are separated. Why? Because Aurora has begun the annual behavior of denning. While we will not know for sure until November or December, Animal Care and Animal Health teams at the Columbus Zoo remains cautiously optimistic that a new cub is on the way! 

Lee, a 23-year-old male polar bear, returns to Columbus Zoo

Conservation Journey: Polar Bears, face reveal yes i am bear

Columbus Zoo on X: It's Polar Bear Week! The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet. Human-polar bear conflict is a growing problem across the Arctic as melting

Conservation Journey: Polar Bears, face reveal yes i am bear

Nora, the Oregon Zoo's polar bear cub, is ready to make her public debut

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Columbus Zoo polar bear out in public eye

Columbus Zoo polar bear Kulu moving to new home this fall

Polar bears Nora and Amelia Gray pal around in first meeting at Oregon Zoo

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Columbus Zoo and Aquarium - We can't ig-Nora the national holiday underway—it's Bear Awareness Week! Polar bears communicate by touching nose-to-nose when they want to ask another bear for something, like to

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