Jamie's Visit to Richmond, part 3
At the end of the week and his time here, Jamie and I visited Maymont Park in Richmond. We spent some time walking around and taking pictures and seeing all the animals-birds, buffalo, the new bear, fox, and fish in the Japanese gardens. Back a few months ago, there had been two bears living at Maymont and one of them bit a little kid and so they ended up eunthanizing both bears. It caused a huge uproar amongst people in the city and so they ended up getting a new bear. We did see him when we were there, but he was sleeping. =)
This bear statue is a memorial to the 2 who died earlier this year.
posted by Rachel | 6:38 AM
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Poor bears, if I remember it correctly the parents of the kid allowed him to go into their restricted area and that's when the biting occurred, and then after the euthanization, it turns out the bears didn't pass any rabies or anything to the kid. I always thought their deaths were very sad.
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