The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma announced that one of its polar bears, Blizzard, was humanely euthanized due to a rapid decline of his health and a cancer growth. FOX13
26-year-old Blizzard was diagnosed with liver cancer in Sept. 2021 and was receiving chemotherapy and other treatments to slow the progression of the disease. However, Dr. Karen Wolf, the zoo's head veterinarian, said his quality of life deteriorated rapidly over the past week.
Preliminary results of his necropsy showed that the cancer mass in his liver had grown to the size of a giant watermelon. Blizzard was rescued as an orphaned cub in Canada before coming to Point Defiance Zoo in 1997. He’d been separated from his mother on the Arctic tundra and had no chance of survival."Blizzard also helped play a critical role in helping researchers learn more about his species.
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