Wild Canada<\/a> area where the zoo’s bears are housed “remained temporarily closed while our teams completed a full assessment of the area” before reopening in the afternoon.<\/p>\n“Our teams will be reviewing the circumstances of the incident as part of our established post-incident procedures. We do not have any further information to share at this time,” she said.<\/p>\n
WATCH | The Calgary Zoo’s difficult history with polar bears:<\/p>\n
Calgary Police Service Staff Sgt. John Guigon says there was no danger to the public during the incident.<\/p>\n
“The grizzly bear got out, took a little walk around the zoo, sat down and was tranquilized by members of the the zoo,” he said.<\/p>\n
Guigon says police officers responded to the scene but remained on standby while the zoo handled the incident.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure they were concerned given it’s a grizzly bear and what they are capable of doing, but the bear didn’t seem interested in doing much more than just having an adventure,” he said.<\/p>\n
Fitz and his brother Turner were brought to the zoo as cubs last fall after their mother was killed by a hunter in self-defence near Diamond Valley, southwest of Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Calgary Zoo’s grizzly bears spent some time on the other side of his enclosure. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,12459,180230,48,49895],"class_list":["post-860970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-calgary-zoo","tag-canada","tag-grizzly-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}