One of Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s polar bears has a broken bone and will be healing out of site for “the next several months.”
Nora, a 500-pound polar bear, broke the humerus bone on her front, right leg Wednesday night, the zoo says — presumably from “her signature style of roughhouse play.”
“She’s a very rambunctious bear,” said Lead Keeper Kaleigh Jablonski in a news release. “It’s not unusual to watch her head-dive into the snow without any hesitation. She just plays rough.”
Zookeepers said Nora was found “unwilling to move” on Thursday morning. After monitoring her for a few days, a full physical examination was performed Sunday, including X-rays that confirmed Nora had broken her humerus bone and was unable to walk.