Stricken polar bear turns up in Siberian city, hundreds of miles from home
by Staff and agencies in Moscow from Environment | The Guardian on (#4HET6)
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A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia.
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