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tuart is a 16-week-old cinnamon-faced black bear who just became a resident of Monterey County.
Charlie Sammut, president and owner of Monterey Zoological Society in Salinas, formerly Wild Things,
found the little bear at a sanctuary in Colorado while he was there to pick up a lioness to transport to Jamaica.
"Stuart was bred for zoos. Hopefully here he will remain a free contact bear," Sammut says.
Construction is underway for the Monterey Zoo, which is "being built very slowly but very surely as fund-
ing comes in," Sammut says. "Hopefully in a few months we will have our big tiger exhibit open."
— Brett Wilbur
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Photo: Kelli Uldall