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Hungry Russian bears resort to digging up graveyards for food
05:55 AM Oct 28, 2010
MOSCOW - From a distance it resembled a rather large man in a fur coat, leaning tenderly over the grave of a loved one. But when the two women in the Russian village of Vezhnya Tchova went closer they realised there was a bear in the cemetery eating a body.
Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer that they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries, officials said on Tuesday. Their usual food - mushrooms, berries and the odd frog - has disappeared.
Local people said that bears had resorted to scavenging in towns and villages - rummaging through bins, stealing garden carrots and raiding tips. A young man had been mauled in the centre of Syktyvkar, the capital of Russia's Komi region.
"They are really hungry this year. It's a big problem. Many of them are not going to survive," said Mr Simion Razmislov, the vice-president of Komi's hunting and fishing society.
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Hungry Russian bears resort to digging up graveyards for food
05:55 AM Oct 28, 2010
MOSCOW - From a distance it resembled a rather large man in a fur coat, leaning tenderly over the grave of a loved one. But when the two women in the Russian village of Vezhnya Tchova went closer they realised there was a bear in the cemetery eating a body.
Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer that they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries, officials said on Tuesday. Their usual food - mushrooms, berries and the odd frog - has disappeared.
Local people said that bears had resorted to scavenging in towns and villages - rummaging through bins, stealing garden carrots and raiding tips. A young man had been mauled in the centre of Syktyvkar, the capital of Russia's Komi region.
"They are really hungry this year. It's a big problem. Many of them are not going to survive," said Mr Simion Razmislov, the vice-president of Komi's hunting and fishing society.
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