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SE: Wolves were threatening the keeper

Roughly translated by TWIN Observer

NORRKÖPING / TT When a zookeeper last summer died in a wolf attack on Kolmården zoo the management said that the incident occurred without warning. An incident report from 2011 shows that wolves previously had threatened a lone attendant, writes Aftonbladet.

A keeper says in the report that wolves were circulating around and became more and more menacing.

“I screamed and made a lunge. But it felt like it just triggered them even more.” The keeper got scared and hit a wolf with a shovel – without effect.

Eventually the attendant got out of the enclosure.

Mats Höggren, zoological manager, said that “careful assessments and analyses” were made afterwards.

“The action was that we would be more aware and notice abnormal behavior of these particular individuals,” he told the newspaper.

Kolmården reported that incident for transparency but it did not lead to any major changes in routines. “All the incidents have been documented and investigated in accordance with the regulations that exist,” says the zoo said in a statement.

On Monday, Kolmården is to hand over its response to the Authority’s inspection of the fatal accident in June. The report, which the circumstances of the accident is being investigated, are also being presented to show which measures the zoo has done to prevent future accidents.

An autopsy report from the fatal attack in June was compiled by the National Board of Forensics but the police investigation is not finished.

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