A polar bear roaming the Arctic outpost in northern Russia.
If you look closely, the mouth part is strange.
Tongue stuck in a can.
A two-year-old female polar bear was found wounded by nearby residents.
The Moscow Zoo immediately flew in to rescue the polar bears.
After stunning the bear with an anesthetic gun, a sharp can of canned food was removed from its mouth and the deeply cut tongue was treated.
After moving the bears to a safer place, they put a bunch of fish around for the bears who might not have eaten for a while.
The zoo’s veterinarian, Mikhail Alshinetski, said the bear had lost weight and was slightly dehydrated, but the wounds were expected to heal.
The rise of polar bears has a direct impact on climate change.
A team of Canadian and American scientists has warned that hungry polar bears are increasingly turning to garbage heaps to fill their stomachs as icy habitats are disappearing due to climate change.
Scientists explain that polar bears are becoming more dependent on landfills near northern communities in places like Russia, Canada and Alaska.
Because of this, he said, human waste, including plastics and cans, poses a new threat to the polar bear population.
