Sep 16 2015 14 mins 5
This month I hear how a wildlife park in Yorkshire is providing the perfect retirement setting for an old polar bear. I discover that social insects make trips to natures pharmacy to fight infections. And in the scientific spark, I talk to Patricia Brekke from the Zoological Society of London, who tells me about her research on the endangered new Zealand bird the Hihi, and what inspired her to become a scientist.
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Victor is Yorkshire Wildlife Park's polar bear.
He is one of the biggest polar bears in Europe, weighing 500Kg
Quicklinks:
Yorkshire Wildlife Park's Project Polar Bear
Ants medicate to fight disease in the journal Evolution
Patricia Brekke from The Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London
Download the MP3
Victor is Yorkshire Wildlife Park's polar bear.
He is one of the biggest polar bears in Europe, weighing 500Kg
Quicklinks:
Yorkshire Wildlife Park's Project Polar Bear
Ants medicate to fight disease in the journal Evolution
Patricia Brekke from The Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London
