Bears eat 'a week's worth' of honey after escaping enclosure

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With a brace of bears connected the loose, constabulary were called and a firearms portion dispatched astatine the wildlife parkland successful southwest England.

But the panic was rapidly quelled erstwhile Mish and Lucy were recovered accelerated dormant successful the chromatic store connected Monday, having eaten a weeks worthy of stocks of the saccharine dainty astatine Wildwood Devon.

The sisters managed to get retired done a backmost doorway which had been near unfastened portion unit were moving with vehicles inside, Mark Habben, the park’s manager of zoological operations, told NBC News successful a telephone interrogation Wednesday.

“They weren’t successful the nationalist space, but they were retired of their enclosure successful the unit areas, conscionable wandering around,” helium said.

With their newfound state and consciousness of odor 2,000 times higher than humans they made their mode to the kitchens.

“We had a caller nutrient transportation with each the effect and vegetables conscionable an hr earlier they escaped,” Habben said of the supplies that would’ve different lasted 4 days. “They ate each of the bananas, apples, caller food, and the vegetables,” helium said.

The siblings past recovered chromatic jars successful the country wherever the unit prepares meals for them and “ate astir a week’s worth,” helium said.

“They’ve got an astonishing consciousness of smell, truthful they conscionable wandered astir looking for their favourite nutrient items, and past they fell asleep,” helium said.

Mish and Lucy’s flight prompted an exigency evacuation passim the parkland and the deployment of a firearms effect squad supported by the section police, Habben said.

He added that determination was ne'er immoderate dangers of the bears being changeable “because the bears were very, precise calm,” helium said, adding cipher was injured.

“All they wanted to bash was instrumentality themselves backmost successful the end,” helium said.

After an hr of rummaging for snacks, Mish, who weighs astir 400 pounds, conscionable walked himself backmost into the enclosure, and Lucy, who weighs astir 300 pounds, ran backmost wrong aft the keepers rang a doorbell that she was trained to follow, Habben said.

The European brownish bears were rescued arsenic cubs from a snowfall drift successful Albania successful 2019, Habben said. Originally they were expected to beryllium released successful Romania, but erstwhile that didn’t enactment Wildwood built a “bespoke wood home” for the pair, helium added.

“They’re conscionable truly inquisitive, truly friendly, and a batch of fun,” helium said. “They are precise intrigued by everything.”