‘Naughty' bears escape, steal a week's worth of honey and take long nap
In the fairy tale, Goldilocks goes into the home of the three bears to eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. But at the Wildwood Devon conservation park in Britain, it's the bears who are doing the breaking and entering — and sleeping.
Two young bears named Lucy and Mish escaped from their enclosure earlier this week and headed straight for their food store, where they gobbled up a week's worth of honey before falling asleep, the park said in a statement on social media.
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