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(10-30-2018, 09:52 PM)peter Wrote: BROWN BEARS KILL WOLF IN DUTCH FACILITY
We have a thread about incidents between humans and captive animals in this section (captive animals), but, apart from the two circus threads, nothing on incidents between animals. For this reason, I decided for this new thread.
The aim of the thread is to collect information about incidents between captive animals in zoos and facilities (not the circus). Incidents in which humans were not involved, that is.
In Europe, apart from zoos, you can find lots of facilities. Most are open to the public. This incident discussed in this post happened in a facility in The Netherlands. I never heard of it before, but it apparently has brown bears and wolves. They live together in one part of the facility.
According to a spokesman, the brown bears and wolves never had any problems. Until today.
During play, one of the wolves fell into a small pool. When it tried to get out, it was attacked by a bear. The three other bears immediately joined. Although the other wolves tried to intervene, the wolf was killed. The video (02:38), shot by a visitor, starts with a warning, as it's violent:
The spokeswoman said the incident, apparently considered as a freak incident, won't result in a new strategy on brown bears and wolves. The article is in Dutch:
"The spokeswoman said the incident, apparently considered as a freak incident, won't result in a new strategy on brown bears and wolves. The article is in Dutch:"
Of course, why would they attempt to fix a problem?
Attacks & Accidents in zoos and facilities
