(CNN) — Africa’s final frigid bear spends his days lamentation his longtime messenger during a zoo in Johannesburg, a distant cry from his Arctic habitat.

Wang has been alone given GeeBee, his frigid bear partner of scarcely 3 decades, died unexpected this year.

The South African zoo he calls home is on a goal to hearten adult a sluggish animal and confuse him from his heartbreak.

GeeBee and Wang had spent their days together given they were cubs. It was a important loyalty — frigid bears tend to be unique animals.

In January, GeeBee succumbed to a heart attack.

“On a day she died, Wang was doing surprising things,” pronounced Agnes Maluleke, a carnivore curator for a Johannesburg Zoo.

Instead of gobbling adult food used to captivate him into his night room, Wang walked around his companion’s body, stared and kept watch a whole night, according to Maluleke.

“He had to be immobilized to collect GeeBee’s body,” she said.

Shortly after, Wang mislaid seductiveness in food and shunned swimming, his favorite entertainment with GeeBee.

“He generally looked really unhappy. He was avoiding swimming, that is what he likes to do when it’s hot,” she said. “He hasn’t got over a H2O issues; we’ve frequency seen him float lately.”

Zoo officials stepped in to lift his spirits.

For Valentine’s Day, they brought him a box filled with fruit and meat, and flashy it with adore hearts and a note that said, “We Love You Wang!”

“As a partner’s not here, we suspicion let us classify something special for him to uncover that we still caring and adore him,” Maluleke said.

It seemed to get a cuddly hulk excited.

Ecstatic crowds watched him cautiously open a present in his enclosing and feast on a goodies.

Companies also showered him with toys, including a round filled with treats that he pored by for hours. One even offering a sleet appurtenance in a hopes that it competence excite a animal prolonged compared with subzero temperatures.

But Wang suffers from liver illness and has lived his whole life in a comfortable climate. A remarkable change in sourroundings would be deadly for his modernized age, Maluleke said.

Wang was innate during a Japanese zoo, and GeeBee came from Canada after both were substituted for lions. The dual met during a Johannesburg Zoo when they were 6 months aged and lived there for 28 years. They did not multiply since frigid bears’ facsimile is furious by cold weather.

Wang is not a usually frail frigid bear discovered by humans.

Knut prisoner hearts worldwide when he was deserted by his mom during Zoo Berlin in 2007. A zookeeper took caring of a pup until he was aged adequate to deflect for himself. Although animal rights groups denounced it as unnatural, a pup and his caretaker, who slept subsequent to his crate, became present celebrities.

Knut died 3 years ago during age 4.

But a aged Wang is abounding amid all a additional care, zoo officials said. He’s display some-more seductiveness in food and his surroundings, and is some-more warning by a day.

Zookeepers don’t know how most longer Wang has to live. In a wild, frigid bears hardly make it past 20 years, Maluleke said.

But for now, his tellurian friends continue to find ways to kindle and console him.