Monday, June 30, 2008

Reality Bites

It's not a howling wilderness, it's a park:
A 45-year-old tourist from Holland painfully found out just how wild the Sonoran Desert can be — even in the confines of a museum.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum officials made the "extremely rare" decision to close the museum all day Saturday after a wild javelina breached the grounds Friday and bit the man, who ended up in surgery for wounds to his right calf and hand.

...Apparently thinking the animal was part of an exhibit, the man unknowingly approached too close to the javelina, said Aninna Thornburg, an Arizona Game and Fish spokeswoman.

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