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Banjo

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Banjo reminds everyone in the team of a naughty teenager! This young bear has a real passion for life and loves nothing better than romping around with the other bears who share his den.



His release into the natural enclosure marked a significant step in his recovery and today, years later, he still hugs the other bears and begs them to play!

Banjo arrived as a tragic victim of the new, so-called humane "free-dripping" method. Although he had no catheter implant, he had suffered crude surgery to create a permanent hole in his abdomen, from which bile was drained. Whilst other bears have tragically died from this method, Banjo pulled through and amazed everyone with his will to survive and his joyous love of everything around.

Penguin-like in his stance, Banjo rises up on chubby back legs and swaggers up to Jasper or Aussie in a hilarious pose, before launching himself on bears twice his size! Despite their look of superior disdain, they can't refuse this funny, affectionate bear and before too long, the den resembles a children's playground!


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