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Updated: February 22, 2021, 5:56 pm © Petr Simon/Solent News/Shutterst A female brown bear teaches her young cubs to fish before they are forced to flee when another male approaches. Shutterstock Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A survey of place names have revealed where bears used to roam Scotland’s landscape. In a blog for NatureScot, an expert said it is far from clear when European brown bears became extinct in Scotland, and it was “therefore fascinating that there are several Scottish place names that might recall in some way or other a human familiarity with those iconic mammals”.

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