Two younger brown bears managed to flee from their enclosure at Wildwood Devon, a zoo within the U.Ok., and eat per week’s value of honey (and different snacks) in lower than an hour. The group posted concerning the snafu on Fb, noting that the general public was by no means in danger.
“Two younger bears escaped from their enclosure at Wildwood Devon this afternoon, heading straight for his or her meals retailer,” wrote Wildwood Devon in a Fb submit asserting the incident, which attracted world-wide media consideration. “Mish and Lucy (each 5 years), who posed no menace to the general public at any level, loved a choice of snacks – together with per week’s value of honey – earlier than being safely returned to their enclosure by the skilled keeper staff inside the hour.”
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Wildwood Devon says safety cameras had eyes on the bears constantly till they calmly returned to their enclosure and fell asleep. (It feels like a little bit of a meals coma was so as.) The group then posted security-cam footage of one of many bears munching on some snacks, offering a further replace about the way it occurred.
“We want to thank everybody for his or her messages of assist and concern following the current incident involving our European brown bears, Mish and Lucy,” wrote Wildwood Devon. “We will now affirm that this was the results of an operational error, which allowed the bears to briefly entry a staff-only meals storage space.”
See Wildwood Devon’s official updates concerning the bears that managed to eat per week’s value of honey after escaping from their enclosure right here:
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