Germany: polar bear dies after eating coat and bag from zoo visitor
A polar bear at the Zoo from Stuttgart, in Germany, died after eating a jacket and bag that were thrown by a visitor to your space. Anton, of 25 years, died on Sunday night, after several attempts of handlers to save him â€" tried to threw up the bag and coat, but to no avail.According to the zookeepers, cited by The Local, the animal showed strange behavior for days, which only became clear when he began spitting bits of materials of the coat and wallet. The zoo's veterinarian gave him, then medicines for which the animal threw up the rest of the pieces, which didn't happen."There must have been something quite tasty on her jacket, something that Anton could not resist," their handlers, Andreas and Jürgen Wössner Diesenhofer. Usually, the animal just tore the objects and garments that fell to his cage.How and why the coat and wallet were thrown in a cage of Anton remain unclear. However, the electrified fence that surrounds the space bear has not deterred in the past 20 years about 200 child shoes were thrown in water, add about 50 baby dolls, hundreds of hats, cameras, cell phones and glasses.The zoo veterinarian appealed it to visitors to inform employees and attendants of items by accident fall into the spaces of the animals. "If we knew that something was in the cage we might have been able to save Anton," says Tobias Knauf-Witznes. Anton could have lived another 10 to 15 years, hadn't eaten the coat and wallet. The animal died of serious internal injuries and inflammations.Anton is not the first animal to die in Stuttgart zoo due to ingesting that objects that were left by visitors. A hippo died a few years ago of intestinal obstruction after swallowing a tennis ball and an elephant seal died after swallowing a teddy bear.Foto:  Elfboy / Creative Commons
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