Everybody is talking about Wojtek, the amazing bear. Wojtek died in Edinburgh Zoo in 1963. He was 22 years old. Wojtek understood Polish. He wrestled with Polish soldiers, who used to jump into his enclosure in the Zoo to play with him. Wojtek had lived with the Polish Army since he was an eight week old cub. Two solider, Piotr and Jan, driving in an army convoy along hairpin bends in the mountains of present day Iran, met a little shepherd boy. He was hungry. Those two soldiers had come out of some of the worst prison camps in all human history. They knew what hunger meant.
