Younger bears escape wildlife park enclosure, head straight for snacks

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In a scene that might have been from "Winnie the Pooh," two younger bears who escaped from their enclosure at a zoo in England have been ultimately found in a food storage area chowing down on honey and different snacks.

Mish and Lucy, two 5-year-old European brown bears, sneaked out of their enclosure at wildlife park Wildwood Devon in southwest England Monday afternoon and headed straight for a staff-only meals storage space, in response to Fb posts from Wildwood Devon.

There, the duo feasted on a "number of snacks — together with per week's price of honey," as famous in one of many social media posts.

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The 2 bears weren't a risk to the general public throughout their escape, however all park guests have been moved right into a safe constructing as a security precaution. Mish and Lucy have been then monitored by means of surveillance footage and on the bottom till they made their manner again to their enclosure , Wildwood Devon wrote.

Mish and Lucy feasted on a "number of snacks, together with per week's price of honey," in response to Wildwood Devon. (Wildwood Belief)

"Right here’s footage of Lucy caught red-handed, wanting more than happy with herself after filling up within the meals retailer, and each bears handed out afterward," the wildlife park stated on Fb.

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Wildwood Devon stated the incident, which prompted a police response, was the results of an "operational error." The wildlife park is now conducting a full inside investigation to find out how the bears escaped to forestall an analogous incident from taking place once more.

<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/06/1200/675/wildwood-trust-bears.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="Mish and Lucy — two 5-year-old European brown bears — snuck out of their enclosure at Wildwood Devon in southwest England on Monday afternoon and headed straight for a staff-only food storage area, according to Facebook posts from wildlife park Wildwood Devon." width="1200" height="675"/> Mish and Lucy, two 5-year-old European brown bears, sneaked out of their enclosure at Wildwood Devon in southwest England on Monday afternoon. (Wildwood Belief)

"Whereas the structural integrity of the bear enclosure stays uncompromised, we take any operational lapse extraordinarily severely," Wildwood Devon wrote. "We stay totally dedicated to the best requirements of animal care, customer security and transparency."

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Wildwood Devon, positioned on 40 acres of woodland and gardens in Devon, England, is dwelling to a spread of animals, together with foxes, wolves, crimson squirrels and bears.

Each bears fell asleep after filling up on the honey and different snacks, in response to Wildwood Devon. (Wildwood Belief)

In 2023, an Andean bear escaped from his enclosure on the St. Louis Zoo twice in a single month. In considered one of his escapes, the bear managed to interrupt out by tearing aside clips holding stainless-steel mesh to the body of the enclosure's door.

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Wildwood Devon and Devon and Cornwall Police didn't instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

Sophia Compton is a Digital Manufacturing Assistant at Fox Information Digital. Sophia was beforehand a enterprise reporter masking finance, power and tourism and has expertise as a TV information producer. She graduated with a journalism diploma in 2021 from the College of Hawaii at Manoa.