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Your support makes all the difference.Meet Luka the polar bear, the two-year-old is the newest addition to a zoo in Germany.
Luka has been brought to Wuppertal Zoo and will become a playmate to a female polar bear called Anori, who is the same age as him.
He was born in the Netherlands but appears to be adjusting to his new home in Germany. The bear has been spotted swimming about in his new enclosure, carrying a fish in his mouth as he explores.
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