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The images in the video are shocking: a hungry polar bear approaches people desperately as if to ask for help after his tongue gets stuck in a can of condensed milk.
The desperate animal began to approach the homes of a Russian base in the Arctic. He was looking for someone to save him from an extreme situation: a can stuck in his mouth, imprisoning his tongue.
Images circulating on social media show the wild bear approaching a resident who was in the driveway of his home in Dickson, northern Russia, where only 676 people live.
A resident of the Russian base tried to take the can out of him but failed.
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The video shows a man trying to remove the sharp-edged can from the polar bear’s mouth, but fails because it is too wedged. One resident said, “The bear was so tired of the can that he came up to us and showed us his tongue,” according to reports. Mirror.
“But it was impossible to help without traumatizing the bear, so people gave up,” he said. It is that in the pictures you can clearly see how it is the tongue that’s stuck in the jarand any yank to try to free her would have resulted in a wound of uncertain consequences.
The bear probably isI found the can in a dumpster while I was looking for food before walking around the city to get help from someone.
Experts say polar bears would normally never approach humans in this way, but the animal has become desperate because it is unable to eat.
The bear approaches people asking for help so that they can take the can out of their mouth.
According to Russian outlets, a team of veterinarians is now battling bad weather to reach the village in northern Russia and save the bear that cannot eat.
Svetlana Akulova, general manager of the Moscow Zoo, said: “The plan is to sedate the bear, free him and remove him from the settlement. We have prepared 50 kg of fish for the bear to help him recover,” Akulova said of i plans to save the animal.
But the hours pass and the drama grows for the animal: Svetlana Radionova, head of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources, said that the polar bear is “on the verge of death”. The vets who come to his aid are struggling to reach the remote village and save the bear.
He added: “We have already found specialists, a team of veterinarians from Moscow, who will fly there to help the predator. The goal is to remove the can, but for this we have to immobilize the bear and our agency has issued a permit to allow this. We will do everything to save him. “
The bear roams the city of Dikson, one of the northernmost settlements in the world.
Dikson is one of the most northerly settlements in the world, named after the Swedish explorer Baron Oscar Dickson, with a population of just 676 people.
Bad weather prevented vets from reaching Dikson after flying to Norilsk. According to Mirrorthe bear is visibly worse, the hind legs are shaking with what they believe to be thirst and hunger.
Source: Clarin
