Maryland Zoo’s Polar Bear Could Be 1st To Give Birth By Artificial Insemination

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Zoo is teaming up with the Cincinnati Zoo in a reproductive research project to artificially inseminate Anoki, their 21-year-old female polar bear.
Anoki had been paired up with Magnet at the Maryland Zoo, but following his death in 2015, there has been no male polar bear at the zoo.
The Cincinnati Zoo’s Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife team has attempted four other artificial inseminations since 2012, but they are hoping