I FIGHT IN A ZOO. • j BEARS ATTACK SEA LION. - Visitor.? 1.. .he Zoological Park at Corstorplane, Edinburgh, were witnesses of an exciting encounter between two Polar '..ears and a sea lion. The sea lion had managed to ret out of its pool, and. clambering up the paranet of the adioining pool, dropped into the pool inhabited bv two Polar bears. The two bears attacked the intruder .avagelv, and an uneoual fi.."it waned f- r lamp v ->e. Me.i'iv,2,' •£> th-j ?.c o .■'tttnd'.iti with sticks ar..J sin,.jas ntta '--p<; the >v>- ;v an.-, with 'he aid s ><- vers, which they fired in the air. endeavoured to friffhten them. Finally, thev managed to drive the two tears into' their den. leaving the sea lion in an exhausted ■condition. The sea lion's wounds were then_ attended to, and it is expected that it will recover from its injuries, which if course, were much more severe than those i sustained by the bears* I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16408, 9 December 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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