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Sickly dancing bears leaving Pakistan for new life in Jordan

by Kathy Gannon
| December 16, 2020 5:30 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A pair of sick and badly neglected dancing Himalayan brown bears will leave Islamabad’s notorious zoo Wednesday for a sanctuary in Jordan, closing down a zoo that once housed 960 animals.

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