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Bear cub escapes while being transported
Photo provided by the Columbus Zoo shows a black bear cub named Joan in the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus - Two black bear cubs were being moved into a new habitat when one of them somehow got out of the enclosure.

By AP

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Published: Sun 26 Jun 2016, 4:07 PM

Last updated: Sun 26 Jun 2016, 6:11 PM

Zoo officials in Ohio say a black bear cub briefly escaped its enclosure before being corralled and sedated.
The Columbus Zoo was put on lockdown Saturday morning for a few minutes until workers could contain the 7-month-old black cub named Joan, said zoo spokeswoman Patty Peters.
She says two black bear cubs were being moved into a new habitat when one of them somehow got out of the enclosure.
The cub was within an area accessible to the public, but Peters says she didn't know yet whether it came close to visitors.
Workers were able to contain the bear within 15 minutes after the first alert went out.
Just a month ago, a response team at the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a 400-pound gorilla after a boy got inside its enclosure.



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