Bear escapes from zoo enclosure – 2nd time this month – forcing guests to move indoors

Stainless steel enclosure clips rated at 450 pounds tensile strength were no match for Ben, an Andean bear at the St. Louis Zoo on Thursday. The clever 4-year-old, whose enclosure had supposedly been reinforced after an escape earlier this month, managed to bearhandle the barricade just so, breaking free once again. — Read the rest