wellway
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Post by wellway on Jun 1, 2018 11:15:21 GMT
This is a breaking story on the BBC. We will find out what happened but how, just how is this possible?? BBC Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar have escaped from a zoo in Lünebach in western Germany, police have said. Local authorities advised residents to stay inside their homes and call the police if they saw any of the five predators at large. A bear had also escaped but has been shot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44332699 |
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Jun 1, 2018 11:22:44 GMT
A little extra has been added, they were able to escape because of flooding as result of a storm.
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Post by melanell on Jun 1, 2018 11:58:57 GMT
Yikes.
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Post by myshelly on Jun 1, 2018 14:03:02 GMT
Have they looked in Madagascar?
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Post by Judy26 on Jun 1, 2018 14:05:36 GMT
I see they have all been recaptured so all is well.
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Post by annaintx on Jun 1, 2018 14:27:59 GMT
Except that they shot the bear. They had escaped due to serious flooding. Poor animals.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jun 1, 2018 14:56:16 GMT
I see they have all been recaptured so all is well. Good to hear, except for the loss of the bear. |
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Jun 1, 2018 15:14:24 GMT
Although I'm sorry about the bear, at least the other animals have been recaptured alive and no one has been hurt.
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Post by cakediva on Jun 1, 2018 15:23:33 GMT
Have they looked in Madagascar?  We really need buttons like FB here - the HA HA one in particular! |
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Post by marimoose on Jun 1, 2018 16:05:40 GMT
Poor bear. Did nothing wrong except get caught in an unfortunate situation. Thankful the others were able to be captured unharmed. I had no idea that flooding was taking place there.
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Post by sueg on Jun 1, 2018 16:53:26 GMT
I had no idea that flooding was taking place there. There was a lot of flash flooding in many parts of Germany overnight, as we had massive rain storms. The animals that escaped were all found on the zoo grounds - they just escaped from their cages, not the zoo itself. |
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Post by freebird on Jun 1, 2018 17:28:46 GMT
Have they looked in Madagascar? They like to moveitmoveit. |
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Post by scrapmaven on Jun 1, 2018 18:58:54 GMT
Stupid animals. Now the judge is just going to add to their sentence. I'm sad about the bear. I wish they could have tranquilized him, instead.
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Post by birukitty on Jun 2, 2018 0:13:10 GMT
I'm very sad about the bear. Why couldn't they have used a tranquilizer gun on him/her instead? And they were roaming around the zoo itself not out in public on the public streets. With that amount of flooding I would think the zoo would have been closed to visitors. So what danger would they have posed except to zoo officials who are used to handling wild animals?
I know it's easy for me to sit here in front of my computer after the fact, but I just really hate when things happen to wild animals who didn't ask to get locked up in a cage acting like a normal wild animal. I'm sure we all feel the same way about this bear today.
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 2, 2018 3:15:03 GMT
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
(I hope they can all be recaptured unharmed).
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Post by sueg on Jun 2, 2018 5:27:51 GMT
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! (I hope they can all be recaptured unharmed). Most of the animals never left the zoo, in fact, were in a corner of their enclosure where they were hidden fro zoo staff looking for them. One bear was shot after it escaped from the zoo and was in woodland near the town. |
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Post by moonglowe21 on Jun 2, 2018 14:26:21 GMT
I'm very sad about the bear. Why couldn't they have used a tranquilizer gun on him/her instead? And they were roaming around the zoo itself not out in public on the public streets. With that amount of flooding I would think the zoo would have been closed to visitors. So what danger would they have posed except to zoo officials who are used to handling wild animals? I know it's easy for me to sit here in front of my computer after the fact, but I just really hate when things happen to wild animals who didn't ask to get locked up in a cage acting like a normal wild animal. I'm sure we all feel the same way about this bear today. Same. Rest easy, sweet Bear.  |
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