Boki, a brown bear at the Wildwood Trust, near Canterbury, Kent, where an appeal online has been launched for to help raise funds for his planned brain surgery, the first time such an operation will be performed in the UK. Experts at Wildwood Trust sought a diagnosis for two-year-old Boki who has been suffering from seizures and related health issues, and an MRI revealed he has hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain. Specialist wildlife veterinary surgeon, Romain Pizzi, the first surgeon ever to perform a similar operation on a black bear in Asia, has agreed to operate on Boki later this week. Picture date: Monday October 7, 2024.