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Polar bear cub tamed ‘like a dog’ by gold miners rescued from Arctic island of Bolshevik
22 April 2021
Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.
The female cub spent several months living close to humans, and got so used to them that it behaved like a dog, playing with the workers and following them around the base. Picture: Andrey Gorban
First reports about a young cub living at the gold miners’ base on the island of Bolshevik, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the high Arctic, reached experts in Krasnoyarsk in early February.