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Curious scenes in Stuttgart: A man runs through Wilhelma in a bear costume.
The incident in the Baden-Württemberg zoo is quickly cleared up.
Stuttgart – The zoological and botanical garden in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart is one of the key sights of the Baden-Württemberg state capital.
“Bear alarm” in Stuttgart Wilhelma?
Swabia Zoo is rehearsing a possible emergency
From here it is not far to the Neckar, which flows through the city with its around 635,000 inhabitants.
You can also see the football arena from the hill, the stadium in which the local VfB Stuttgart is currently causing quite a stir in the Bundesliga.
On Thursday (February 29th), a bear that was believed to have escaped caused a sensation in the zoo, more precisely in the Wilhelma Stuttgart.
How can that be?
Bear alarm in the Schwabenkessel?
The zoo immediately gave the all-clear.
It was just an exercise - with an employee disguised in a bear costume.
The case was reminiscent of a rehearsal in Hiroshima, Japan, where an employee also slipped into a bear costume.
Bear hunting in the Wilhelma Stuttgart: The Swabian zoo rehearsed an emergency if an animal escaped.
© Wilhelma Stuttgart
“This specific scenario involved a spectacled bear that was moving outside of its enclosure.
An employee in a bear costume provided a realistic training situation,” wrote the zoo, which is well known in southwest Germany, on its website.
A new warning app was used for the first time.
Wilhelma Stuttgart: Warning app caused planned “bear alarm”
“After the alarm planned but not announced by the Wilhelma management was triggered, the employees were alerted via smartphone and received instructions for action,” explained the zoo management about the exercise scenario: “The relevant area of the Wilhelma had to be evacuated and cordoned off immediately .”
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A crisis team that was immediately called together put together a team of experienced zookeepers and veterinarians, "who were able to secure the 'bear' between the 'great ape house' and the 'Asian show farm' within a few minutes," the zoo statement continued: "In an emergency “If the bear had been anesthetized with the help of a blowgun: that was also rehearsed, but of course without arrows.”
“The 'anesthetized' bear was spotted,” wrote the Stuttgart Wilhelma about this photo of the exercise.
© Wilhelma Stuttgart
Wilhelma Stuttgart: The zoo with the most species in Germany after Berlin
By the way: The spectacled bear is the only bear living in South America and the only surviving representative of the short-snouted bear.
A fully grown male animal reaches a length/size of up to 190 centimeters and a weight of 130 to 175 kilograms.
Spectacled bears are found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
With more than 1,000 different species on 30 hectares, the Stuttgart Wilhelma is considered the most species-rich zoo in Germany after the Berlin Zoological Garden.
The zoological and botanical garden had been open to the public in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg since 1880.
Wilhelma has been officially a public zoo since 1953.
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