Respondents get bullish on Winnipeg zoo’s online bear-naming contest
Jan 13, 2017 | 9:30 AM
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WINNIPEG — Orphaned male and female polar bear cubs brought to Winnipeg’s zoo late last year from the Hudson Bay port town of Churchill are no longer being referred to as just those two bruins.
An online poll conducted last weekend through the Assiniboine Park Conservancy has come up with the name Nanuq for the female and Siku for the male.
Nanuq is the Inuktitut word for polar bear, while Siku means ice.
The winning monikers received nearly 4,000 votes each in the poll and were taken from options submitted by children and staff at the Churchill Children’s Centre for the female, and from conservancy employees for the male.
