Two younger bears escaped from their enclosure at a U.Okay. wildlife park and devoured per week’s price of meals retailer honey earlier than falling asleep, the park mentioned on Tuesday.
Mish and Lucy, each aged 4, bought out of their enclosure at Wildwood Devon in southwestern England on Monday afternoon.
The pair made a beeline for his or her meals retailer the place they scoffed snacks, together with the seven-day provide of honey, a park assertion mentioned. The park launched video of Lucy devouring the meals and “wanting very happy with herself.”
The bears “posed no risk to the general public at any level” though guests on web site had been escorted to a safe constructing as a precaution.
In the course of the hour-long drama, the bears had been “repeatedly monitored each on the bottom and by way of CCTV” till they had been returned to their enclosure by keepers and promptly “fell asleep,” Wildwood added.
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“Our skilled preserving workforce acted instantly, following established security protocols, and efficiently used recall coaching to encourage each bears again into their enclosure with out the necessity for any intervention,” the park mentioned.
Police had been on the scene and an investigation was underway to find out how the animals managed to interrupt out. The park mentioned an “operational error” allowed the bears to flee, with out elaborating.
“This was an remoted incident, and we’re conducting a full inner investigation to know precisely the way it occurred and to make sure sturdy measures are in place to forestall a reoccurrence,” the park wrote on social media. “Whereas the structural integrity of the bear enclosure stays uncompromised, we take any operational lapse extraordinarily severely.”
The park, which covers 40 acres of gardens and woodland, is dwelling to an array of wildlife together with brown bears, wolves and arctic foxes.
