{"id":10921,"date":"2025-06-24T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10921\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:21:09","slug":"wildlife-park-near-exeter-evacuated-after-bears-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10921\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife park near Exeter evacuated after bears escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust has now launched an investigation into how the pair of &#8220;young bears&#8221;, weighing about 180kg (397lb) each, escaped as there were no signs of enclosure damage, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Habben said: &#8220;Both bears are extremely happy. The team were very, very calm, as were the bears at all points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The public were not in harm&#8217;s way, emergency procedures and everyone did the job they were intended to do.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Habben said a &#8220;code red&#8221; was called after the bears were spotted by senior staff after they &#8220;breached&#8221; the enclosure and made their way to a staff area at about 15:00 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;They were in an area where we keep enrichment &#8211; all the nice things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bears had a feast, played around, pulled some rope out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust has now launched an investigation into how the pair of &#8220;young bears&#8221;, weighing about 180kg (397lb)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-10921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114738789325917769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}