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====Big Bears==== Big Bears features four bears, a male [[grizzly bear]] and three [[ABC Islands bear]]s rescued as orphans from [[Baranof Island]] of [[Alaska]].<ref name="nbcnewyork.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Bronx-Welcomes-Bear-Cubs-82943822.html |title=Bronx Zoo Welcomes Bear Cubs |work=NBC New York |access-date=February 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302225628/http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Bronx-Welcomes-Bear-Cubs-82943822.html |archive-date=March 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Until 2015, two female grizzly bears named Betty and Veronica also lived in this exhibit, but moved to the [[Central Park Zoo]] where they died in 2020 and 2021.<ref name="gothamist.com">{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2014/09/30/central_parks_new_bears_will_be_bro.php |title=Central Park's New Bears Will Be Bronx Zoo Grizzly Bears |work=Gothamist |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326073949/http://gothamist.com/2014/09/30/central_parks_new_bears_will_be_bro.php |archive-date=March 26, 2016}}</ref> The zoo also formerly housed [[polar bear]]s until the last individual, a 26-year-old male named Tundra died in December 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bronx Zoo's last polar bear euthanized due to health issues |date=December 28, 2017 |url=https://nypost.com/2017/12/28/bronx-zoos-last-polar-bear-euthanized-due-to-health-issues/}}</ref> Three [[dhole]]s from the [[San Diego Zoo Safari Park]] were added to the habitat in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bronx Zoo Debuts Pack of Endangered Dhole |url=https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13192/Bronx-Zoo-Debuts-Pack-of-Endangered-Dhole.aspx}}</ref>
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