A bear escaped its outdoor habitat at the St. Louis Zoo on Thursday, prompting a lockdown that lasted for about an hour, the zoo said.
In the first instance, the zoo said, the bear"got out by meddling with the steel mesh in just the right spot of the outdoor habitat, causing a cable to give way.
" About 90 minutes after he was discovered outside the habitat, Ben was tranquilized and moved to an indoor holding area, the zooIn the wake of that incident, the zoo said that it added"stainless steel cargo clips rated at 450 pounds tensile strength" to better secure the outdoor habitat."Yet, that wasn't enough for Ben," the zoo said Thursday.Ben, a 4-year-old Andean bear, has been at the St.
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