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Myomick was attacked and killed by a polar bear in the small village of Wales, Alaska. The attack happened at 2:30 pm. The polar bear had chased several residents of the community, before it killed the woman and her 1-year-old son. The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair. [43] [44]
Event. On 5 August 2011, a polar bear in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard attacked a party of thirteen university students, who were undertaking an expedition organised by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES), and were camped near the Von Post glacier, 25 miles (40 km) from the settlement of Longyearbyen. [1] The bear was reported ...
Polar bears, particularly starving males, will hunt humans for food, though attacks on humans by female bears are rare. The earliest recorded account of a polar bear attack was written in 1595. It described a predatory attack on two people from Willem Barentsz's crew in the Russian Arctic. Between 1870 and 2014, out of 73 recorded polar bear ...
Binky (polar bear) Binky (1975 – July 20, 1995) was a captive male polar bear who lived at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. In separate incidents in 1994, Binky mauled two zoo visitors; these events received international news coverage. He was originally orphaned near Cape Beaufort, close to the Chukchi Sea in the Alaska North Slope, and was ...
Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but this is at least the second recorded deadly incident involving a polar bear attack since 2023. Last year, a woman and her 1-year-old son were ...
A reproduction of "Kesagake". Note the helmet for scale. The Sankebetsu brown bear incident (三毛別羆事件, Sankebetsu higuma jiken), [1] also known as the Rokusensawa bear attack (六線沢熊害事件, Rokusensawa yūgai jiken) or the Tomamae brown bear incident (苫前羆事件, Tomamae higuma jiken), [2] was a series of bear attacks which took place 9-15 December 1915, at the ...
Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images. A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least ...
Bear Island. Native name: Bjørnøya. Bear Island is located north of mainland Norway, in the south of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago. Geography. Location. Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. Coordinates. 74°26′24″N 19°02′51″E / 74.44000°N 19.04750°E / 74.44000; 19.04750.