Kottonwood Kills Kamel in KRQE - video

A longtime inhabitant at the ABQ BioPark Zoo died suddenly Wednesday after a tree limb fell on Bea the Bactrian camel. For the past two decades, Bea made the BioPark her home. “Just about closing time, one of the keepers heard a loud crack and boom,” ABQ BioPark Director Rick Janser said. Keepers rushed to the exhibit. They say a large limb fell off a seemingly healthy cottonwood tree, striking and killing Bea. Janser called her death a freak accident. “It’s huge, you know, Bea was that camel who greeted us every morning,” Rhonda Saiers, assistant curator at the BioPark, said. “It wouldn’t be extremely difficult to replace her as a camel, but as an individual it would be incredibly difficult to replace her.”...more

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