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Black Bear Visits Choate Rosemary Hall
The bear was tranquilized and removed off campus grounds.
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WALLINGFORD, CT - A black bear found roaming around Choate Rosemary Hall Saturday morning was tranquilized, according to a report in the Record-Journal.
The bear was spotted just before 8 a.m. in the area of North Main Street and Lupine Street before it wandered to campus grounds, where it eventually climbed up a tree, police told the Journal. Police contacted the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection who tranquilized the bear in order to relocate it back into the wild.
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The bear was secured by DEEP by 12:30 p.m.
Here's our bear just after he came down from the tree. Sleepy but still awake.
A video posted by Alex Curtis (@choatecurtis) on May 14, 2016 at 9:46am PDT
A photo posted by Alex Curtis (@choatecurtis) on May 14, 2016 at 9:40am PDT
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