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Entertainment 5 months ago

Japanese film about man-eating bear delayed after deadly attacks

Bears have been increasingly encroaching into towns due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.

Entertainment 3 years ago

Eats, snorts and bereaves: killer 'Cocaine Bear' grips Hollywood

Cocaine Bear, the new comedy-horror from Universal Pictures, hopes to shake up Hollywood with its very loosely based-on-a-true-story tale of a giant, wild bear who overdosed on narcotics.

Science & Tech 3 years ago

Fossil discovery solves mystery of how pandas became vegetarian

Fossils dating back about six million years found in southwest China's Yunnan province included a greatly enlarged wrist bone called a radial sesamoid.

Environment 4 years ago

Otis the bear crowned chunk champion in Alaska's Fat Bear Week

Otis, a brown bear estimated to be 24 to 26 years old, was crowned on Tuesday as the winner of Katmai’s annual Fat Bear Week. He came out on top in an online competition pitting 12 large, salmon-chomping bears against one another.

Environment 5 years ago

Kosovo's abused 'restaurant bears' move to greener pastures

Having only just woken up from hibernation, a brown bear named Ero lazily strolls between the trees under a snow-capped mountain in central Kosovo, enjoying life alongside his chubby partner Mira.

Environment 5 years ago

Two bears airlifted from Islamabad zoo weeks after elephant rescue

Just weeks after the "world's loneliest elephant" was rescued from a life of misery in Islamabad Zoo, two Himalayan brown bears, Suzie and Bubloo, were prepared to be airlifted on Wednesday from Pakistan's capital to a sanctuary in Jordan.

Environment 5 years ago

Brown bear found dead in Pyrenees 'was poisoned'

A six-year-old brown bear who was found dead in the Spanish Pyrenees in April was poisoned with a toxic substance used in antifreeze, confirming the main suspect was a forest ranger who was arrested last month.

Environment 5 years ago

Third bear killed in Pyrenees this year

A hunter shot dead a female brown bear in the Spanish Pyrenees at the weekend, raising to three the number killed this year on the mountain range dividing Spain and France.