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As many as eight in ten brown bears cubs born this year in Japan s Shiretoko area have died, with experts blaming rising sea temperatures for dwindling salmon numbers.
RAUSU, Hokkaido–A rare sighting of a starving brown bear scrounging desperately for food underscored the severe crisis facing the apex predator on the eastern coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula.