A sad day for the people at Midland Zoo. The 16-year-old Homer the polar bear Sadly has passed away early this past Saturday. I was able to have a conversation with the zookeeper Sara N Getty and she found him floating in the pool of the polar bear exhibit at 7:00 AM an hour after his feeding time, and a 9-year-old polar bear named Yukon and a 10-year-old polar bear named McKenzie were removed from the exhibit and are now being monitored by the veterinary staff. Sara told me a little about Homer the bear and said, “homer was a very curious and playful polar bear and we will miss him terribly.” 

I also held a conversation with doctor shanda Lear a senior staff veteran at Midland zoo, and she said, “The zoo will perform a necropsy to try to determine the cause of death. The results will not be available for several weeks” in spite of the polar bear dying there was also a 10 year old female bobcat named Regina who died of renal failure last week and two weeks ago a 6 year old giraffe was also found dead After her neck broke when her horns got caught in her stall.

and lastly I got to talk to Chris P bacon who’s opening statement to me was, “we will do everything in our power to determine how this bear died. Animal welfare and the preservation of species are our primary goals here at the zoo.” I had confirmed with Chris on how the two other animals died and overall he was just very saddened and heavy hearted by what has occurred in their zoo.