[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by AC

My fiance and I go to the zoo all the time, and we've literally only seen the blonde black bear once.

It's a Kermode / spirit bear, a black bear subspecies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermode_bear

I thought it just made it's debut last weekend?

They rescued it last summer but it wasn't available to be seen by the public until very recently.