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Brown bears escape enclosure, break into pantry and eat weeks worth of honey
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Two brown bears escaped from their enclosure in a UK wildlife park and broke into a food pantry, consuming a week's worth of honey in a matter of minutes. Brown Bears Mish and Lucy, both aged five, somehow escaped their enclosure inside Wildwood Devon, in Devon, and beelined for the park's food stores. They enjoyed a weeks worth of honey and other snacks before they were returned to their enclosure. Brown Bears Mish and Lucy, both aged five, somehow escaped their enclosure inside Wildwood Devon, in Devon, and beelined for the park's food stores. (Today/The Guardian) The park said there was no threat to the public and visitors of the park, the bears were not interested in anything but honey. The pair were being monitored on the park's CCTV cameras as they dove into pots of honey. Mish made his own way back to the enclosure once he had consumed a respectable amount of the golden syrup, while Lucy had to be lured back with a bell and her favourite foods. Brown Bears Mish and Lucy, both aged five, somehow escaped their enclosure inside Wildwood Devon, in Devon, and beelined for the park's food stores. (Nine) Mish and Lucy are European Brown Bears. The male bears can reach up to 350kg while female bears can reach up to 250kg. They can both eat up to 40kg of food a day. The pair were rescued from a snow drift in Albania in 2019 CONTACT US
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17 hours ago
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Bears scoff week's worth of honey after escape from wildlife park
Two bears at a wildlife park had a Winnie-the-Pooh moment when they escaped their enclosure and scoffed a week's worth of honey. The wanderings of Mish and Lucy, both five-year-old orphaned European brown bears, on Monday afternoon prompted Wildwood Devon visitors to be evacuated from the park and moved to a secure building. The two bears were returned to their 1.5-acre enclosure 'within the hour' with the help of trained firearms staff and specialist police officers. The pair were rescued as cubs in 2019 after being abandoned by their mother WILDWOOD TRUST/PA Wildwood Devon insisted the pair posed 'no threat to the public at any point' and that their exhibit was 'secure'. An investigation is under way to determine how the bears managed to escape. The bears, siblings who were rescued in 2019 from a snowdrift in the Albanian mountains after being abandoned by their mother, left their enclosure at the park in Escot Park, near Ottery St Mary, and headed straight for their food store.
