Polar bear attacks woman at Berlin Zoo

In April a women jumped over a fence into the water habitat of the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo. She jumped into their water during feeding time. The polar bears proceeded to attack her. Biting her and hitting her. The zookeepers then threw out life perservers and rescue rings into the water to try and get her out. They also used the rescue rings to distract the other polar bears while they tried to hoist her out of the water. At one point they had her but she ended up falling back into the water and grabbed by another bear. The zookeepers did eventually get her out of the habitat to safety. She is now being treated at a nearby hospital with severe injuries. No one knows why she went into the polar bear habitat, but the police did issue her with a trespassing citation.

I agree with Liz. Who would want to jump into a habitat especially when they are eating. I mean anyone with any commn sense wouldn't ever do that. Except for the trainers who work with the animals and feed them. It is sort of like jumping into a ocean when you are bleeding, you are going to get the animals attention in someway. But any animal even in the zoo is dangerous. They can/might resort back to their normal behavior in the wild. Even if they were raised in captivity, they still probably know what to do when someone or something comes in disrupts what is going on in the habitat. I am happy that the polar bear didn't kill the women, but what was she thinking. It is dangerous to do something like that, she was lucky that she wasn't killed and that the staff reacted so quickly to get her out of there.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/11/polar.bear.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories