| Sarah_Jayne |
08-30-2004 04:04 AM |
Smarter than the average bear
Bear uses log to float to freedom
A bear in a Berlin zoo caused panic among visitors when he broke out of his enclosure and went straight for the children's playground.
Juan, a 6.5 ft spectacled bear, had been given a log to play with by staff at Berlin zoo.
But he used it as a float to cross the water-filled ditch around his enclosure.
Juan then climbed a fence and was free.
"The bear was fairly quiet, but it went straight for the playground", eyewitness Liane Hertrampf told the Berliner Kurier newspaper.
Parents snatched up their children and fled as zoo staff tried to hold back the bear with brooms and rakes.
Eventually, the zoo vet arrived with a tranquilliser gun, and the sleeping 17-stone bear was carried back to his enclosure.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
Zoo spokesman Heiner Kloes told the paper staff would now search the ditch to make sure there was nothing else in it that could be used as a float.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1085272.html |
