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`Bearing' the brunt

This refers to the report that a visitor to the Assam zoo was injured after being attacked by a black bear (Feb. 8). Thinking that the bear had escaped from its enclosure and attacked the visitor, I read on. The report said that the incident happened when the visitor jumped inside the bear enclosure. A zookeeper who saw him jumping raised a cry following which other staff rushed to the enclosure and pushed the bear away with lathis and pulled the man out. Pushed the bear away with lathis? One would imagine that the bear was almost lathicharged. Shouldn't the headline have been `Bear injured by visitor in Guwahati zoo?' Doomed to live in a small cage all its life and bear the brunt of an act of an idiotic and suicidal visitor?

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