A hungry and exhausted young polar bear was spotted wandering in the suburbs of the Siberian industrial city of Norilsk this week, hundreds of miles from its usual habitat.
This is just the latest recent sighting of a bear in a Russian urban area, but the last time a polar bear appeared near Norislk was more than 40 years ago, Anatoly Nikolaichuk, head of the Taimyr Department of the State Forest Control Agency, told Russian state news agency TASS. Oleg Krashevsky, a local wildlife expert, took these photos of the emaciated animal."He is very hungry, very thin and emaciated. He wanders around looking for food.
The animal was first seen by a group of teenagers, who filmed it and posted the video on Instagram, Krashevsky said. "I saw it was not fake and raised the issue with local authorities," he said."As an expert on bears, I went to look for him ... I found him in the middle of the day."Local news site NGS24.
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