Bears
Apparently not indigenous to Egypt - Herodotus [2.67.1] referred to them as scarce - bears were sometimes displayed in menageries or wandering circuses. Athenaios of Naucratis reported that Ptolemy II kept a white bear at Alexandria.Unlike many other animals, bears were not mummified:
The bears (which are not commonly seen) and the wolves, not much larger in size than foxes, they bury on the spot where they are found lying.Herodotus, Histories II
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