In From The Cold

How animal trainer mark Dumas rescued a vulnerable polar bear.

Professional animal trainer Mark Dumas flew home from Sweden with a new addition to his family in March 1995 – an eight-week-old baby polar bear called Agee.

‘She was this cute little bundle of white fur that could barely walk. She looked fragile,’ explains Dumas, who hand-raised the vulnerable, zoo-born polar bear at his ranch in Canada with his wife Dawn, who is also an animal handler.

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