Scientists from Russia rescue tongue-tied polar bear
Date
7/22/2022 6:09:58 AM
(MENAFN) On Thursday, Russian officials dispatched a team of vets from Moscow to Dikson, a remote Arctic hamlet, to save a polar bear. The female got her tongue locked in a can of condensed milk and died slowly. This week, a video of a bear crying for rescue on the doorstep of a house in Dikson went viral in Russia.
"Half her tongue was stuck in the can," Alexander Makarkin, the airport employee who took the video, told a Russian media source.
The bear had approached his porch, and Makarkin attempted to take the can from her jaws, catching the scene on his mobile camera.
The Moscow Zoo sent a team of professionals to the Russian Arctic, covering a distance of 2,730-kilometers (1,696-miles). When they arrived on Thursday, they promptly tranquilized the bear and gently removed the metal can from her critically wounded tongue. The female, dubbed "Monetka" (coin), was then given an injection to regain strength before being taken out of Dikson by aircraft.
"We spotted the bear about three kilometers from the Dikson airport," stated Svetlana Radionova, head of Russia’s natural resource management agency, Rosprirodnadzor. "Our specialists managed to tranq her with their first shot. She was asleep within ten minutes and we successfully removed the can. Now a veterinarian is treating her tongue, which has many cuts. "
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