{"id":12236,"date":"2018-01-03T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/polar-bear-ahpun-dies-after-nearly-20-years-at-alaska-zoo\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:58:44","slug":"polar-bear-ahpun-dies-after-nearly-20-years-at-alaska-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/polar-bear-ahpun-dies-after-nearly-20-years-at-alaska-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar bear Ahpun dies after nearly 20 years at Alaska Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; A beloved polar bear at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage has died.<\/p>\n<p>A zookeeper Sunday found Ahpun, who was about 20 years old, dead during morning rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo director Patrick Lampi says Ahpun had shown no signs of illness and a necropsy found no cause of death. Tissue will be sent out for additional analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Ahpun was orphaned in 1998 near Point Lay on Alaska&rsquo;s northwest coast. A man returning from a fishing trip unknowingly approached a den and Ahpun&rsquo;s mother charged.<\/p>\n<p>The fisherman shot the bear in self-defense and determined she had emerged from a den. The fisherman crawled inside and found the cub.<\/p>\n<p>Ahpun grew from a 31-pound cub into a 700-pound adult.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo also has a male polar bear, nicknamed Louie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; A beloved polar bear at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage has died. A zookeeper Sunday found Ahpun, who was about 20 years old, dead during morning rounds. Zoo director Patrick Lampi says Ahpun had shown no signs of illness and a necropsy found no cause of death. Tissue will be sent out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":12237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}