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2002: Alaska
Alaska was one of seven skinny, lethargic, filthy polar bears forced to perform with the tropical Suarez Bros. Circus.
In 2001, the Puerto Rican Department of Natural Resources charged the circus with cruelty on a PETA complaint that the bears were living in feces-caked cages with no relief from sweltering 113°F temperatures. Incredibly, the circus was not found guilty of cruelty.
Fortunately, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confiscated Alaska, because the circus had submitted fraudulent documents to the government in order to import and exhibit her.
Now Alaska has been given sanctuary at the Baltimore Zoo with the zoo's formerly lone male polar bear, Magnet.
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