The Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife at the Cincinnati Zoo is now the world's largest polar bear poop repository.

On the hunt — for bear droppings To do that, they needed to collect the fecal microbiome — microbes that digest food and are a good indicator of health — of captive and wild polar bears and compare ...

Poop may be gross, but it can also be a rich source of health information. And for the staff at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, it’s the latter that has them feeding their polar bears glitter.

Many of the contributing zoos with multiple polar bears use non-toxic glitters and dyes in their animals' food to ensure they can sort out which poop came from which polar bear.

A new study using polar bear poop is revealing why certain chemical contaminants can get trapped and build up inside the body.

Polar bears at the Assiniboine Park Zoo are fed different colours of glitter to help identify their droppings. The research tracks hormonal changes a young bear goes through from cub to maturity.

CINCINNATI — CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of ...

CINCINNATICINCINNATI — An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world’s largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this ...

Prehistoric sled dogs in the Siberian Arctic ate a mix of fish, reindeer and polar bear, according to a new analysis of 9,000-year-old turds. Recovered from the early Holocene site of Zhokhov in the ...

A polar bear eats a caribou on land. Recent studies suggest polar bears have a flexible foraging strategy, which help them survive as they come ashore earlier due to melting Arctic sea ice.