Arturo, known as the “world’s saddest polar bear” and forced to spend much of his life in sweltering heat in an Argentine zoo, has died at the age of 31. The zoo refused to move Arturo, maintaining that he was too old to be sedated and shipped for two days, and that he was too close to his Argentine keepers. Half a million people signed a petition two years ago to have him moved from the zoo, in Mendoza, where he had lived since the age of eight, to a wildlife park in Canada, but in vain. Officials said that…

Source: The Times July 04, 2016 16:02 UTC