Dramatic Pic Of Woman Attacked By Polar Bear

2:32pm UK, Saturday April 11, 2009

This is the moment a woman was mauled by a polar bear after she jumped into its enclosure at Berlin Zoo.


Polar bear attacks the woman after she swims towards it



The intruder was attacked just yards away from Knut, the abandoned bear who became famous around the world.

Zookeepers managed to push the bear away and carry the woman from the cage.

The mauling took place inside an enclosure occupied by four polar bears not far from Knut's home.

Heiner Kloes, a Berlin Zoo spokesman, said the enclosure is surrounded by a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall.



Knut with a handler

The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Police did not say why she jumped in with the bears.

"The woman has proved herself to be careless by jumping into the enclosure," a police spokesperson said.

"Logic tells us that polar bears will do this type of thing in this situation."

Last December, a man who later described himself as "lonely" jumped into the cage of the zoo's most famous polar bear.

But he emerged unscathed after zookeepers managed to distract Knut with beef.

The celebrity bear won the world's sympathy after being abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth.

A spokesman for the zoo said Knut, now two years and four months old, would never harm a human.


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How STUPID is this woman????? If that bear had killed her it would probably have been put down!

It doesnt look like that bear is attacking her...she looks like she's gone towards it...its not even wet!

Ambersuz wrote:It doesnt look like that bear is attacking her...she looks like she's gone towards it...its not even wet!

She shoudln't have been in there. I hope he bit a huge chunk out of her arse.

stupid cow, jumping anywhere near a polar bear. she deserves to be bitten for that