GENEVA — Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good. Pedro, a 28-year-old brown bear ...

Bern's Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident, 28-year-old Pedro, to euthanasia and will be closed for good.

Bern’s Bear Pit dates back to at least 1513, when the chronicler Valerius Anshelm described the Bernese army’s return from a military victory with a living bear as booty.

After nearly 500 years in a pit, Bern's famous bears are to get a new home - a riverside reserve on the edge of the old city. With luck, the park will open in 2007, bringing to an end years of ...

After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly about to endure a horrendous death in front of visitors enjoying a day out at Switzerland's Bern Bear Park.

He’s eager to talk about Bern’s bear pit, a 6,000sqm plot in the heart of the city where three brown bears have lived since 2009. But he almost boils over with excitement when I ask about the ...

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DISTURBING footage shows the moment a man was savagely attacked by a raging 40st bear at a zoo in front of horrified visitors. The man climbed the 13ft enclosure and jumped into the bear pit before… ...

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After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly about to endure a horrendous death in front of visitors enjoying a day out at Switzerland's Bern Bear Park.