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Bear sent into exile after stealing picnic box from hunters
By The Siberian Times reporter
15 May 2019
Beast was seen daily on roadside begging for food from humans, but he fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild.
Bear-robber fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild. PIcture: Pressa41
A recent video from Kamchatka showed how a group of hunters lost their lunch box to a wild predator by a roadside.
The animal jumped into the back of their pickup truck and made away with their lunch box clasped in its jaws.
A hunter is heard shouting to his friend: 'Shoot… Pasha, please shoot… What is with you?
'He’s stealing the box. That’s all our food inside it!'
Hunter Pasha fired a shot into the air but this did nothing to deter the large brown bear from stealing a sumptuous meal as it ran into the forest.
He was lured into a specially-made container - tempted by fish and a tasty cabbage pie. Pictures: Evgeniy Biryukov, Pressa41
But now the wildlife authorities have forcibly relocated the bear because it posed the threat to humans on the highway.
A new video shows how the 'beggar bear' was trapped.
He was lured into a specially-made container - tempted by fish and a tasty cabbage pie.
It was then driven into the wild - several dozen kilometres away - where it must fend for itself.
It was then driven into the wild - several dozen kilometres away - where it must fend for itself. Pictures: Pressa41
Viktor Furyaev, director of the State Wildlife Service in Kamchatka, said: ‘The trap worked, because the bear is young, it is not more than three years old, he is curious and arrogant.
‘More experienced and older animals are usually much more careful.
‘And in this bear, the feeling of hunger ultimately defeated the feeling of fear, so it climbed.
‘We put inside the fish to attract with the smell. And a pie - so it got interested.'
The bear was seen last year by the highway and returned after its winter hibernation.
Experts say the animal may try again to reach the road and his human feeders, or may become satisfied with life in the wild fending for himself.
A ‘Do Not Feed The Bears’ campaign has been launched in the region.
Hunter Pasha fired a shot into the air but this did nothing to deter the large brown bear from stealing a sumptuous meal as it ran into the forest. Pictures: Alexander Vorobyov
In 2018 some 70 bears were shot in Kamchatka region - a peninsula jutting into the Pacific - because they posed a threat to people.
Experts say many of these beasts were encouraged to come close to humans because they were being fed by people.
Two people were killed by bears last year.
In Ust-Bolsheretsky district the body of a hunter was found recently who is believed to have died after being ambushed by a bear.
The bear was seen last year by the highway and returned after its winter hibernation. Pictures: Artem Vinogradov, alexander_15977, Denis Korepanov, Kira Lagaeva
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