Malayan sun bear attacks zookeeper.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: February 5, 2004| Author: Kohler, Jeremy | Copyright information

Byline: Jeremy Kohler

ST. LOUIS _ The St. Louis Zoo seems to have bad luck with Malayan sun bears _ about every half century.

As bears go, it seems hardly a threat. It weighs in at 150 pounds, the smallest species of bear, a welterweight among half-ton heavies like the grizzly and polar bears.

But for the second time in the Zoo's history, a Malayan sun bear on Thursday attacked and injured a zookeeper. This time the culprit was Rimba, a 6-year-old ...

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