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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A young girl fell over a wooden fence that borders a sun bear exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo, suffering a cut on her head but not coming near the animals.
Neither of the two sun bears at the zoo could have come in contact with the girl because other barriers surround their exhibit: A roughly 8-foot-deep moat, a low-current electric wire and a stone wall separate the bears from the grassy area where the child fell, zoo spokesman Wyndel Hill said Thursday.
"Any accident is a concern. While it may be minor in nature, we take it very seriously to see if there's anything we can do to prevent it from occurring again," said Hill, the zoo's vice president of internal relations.
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