Aalborg Zoo had to put down the young polar bear Augo after she fell about five metres down into a safety pit surrounding its enclosure on Saturday.
The two-year-old female bear broke both of her front legs in the tragic fall, leading zoo officials with no choice but to put the bear down.
“You can’t repair a polar bear so that it can have a good life afterwards,” Jens Sigsgaard, a zoologist and curator at Aalborg Zoo, told TV2 News.
Until the tragedy on Saturday, the zoo believed that Augo was a male, but after Augo was put down, a veterinarian found that it was actually female.
Aalborg Zoo decided on Monday to fill up the deep pit with dirt and instal a security fence.
