According to Canadian tribal authorities, a man who jumped on top of a polar bear that lunged at his wife during a rare attack earlier this week is expected to recover despite suffering significant injuries.
According to a statement from the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, the bear was shot dead by a neighbor during the Tuesday event in the Fort Severn First Nation, located in the far northern region of Ontario.
According to the statement, the bear lunged at the woman when the pair left their house at five in the morning to look for their pets.
According to the police agency, her husband leaped on the beast to save his wife, who collapsed to the ground. His limbs and legs were severely injured but not life-threatening.
According to investigators, the animal fled to a wooded area after the neighbor shot it and passed away from its wounds.
Attacks by polar bears are uncommon.According to a 2017 study that examined over a century of human-polar bear interaction, there have been 73 incidents—20 of which were fatal—in frozen oceans and coastal regions of Canada, Norway, Russia, Greenland, and the United States.
The study, which was published in Wildlife Society Bulletin, revealed that adult males under nutritional stress were the most inclined to attack.
The researchers wrote that future deadly encounters could be prompted by retreating sea ice.
According to the Canadian government, 17,000 polar bears, or around two-thirds of the global population, call Canada home. In 2008, the United States categorized these bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
A mother and her one-year-old boy were tragically mauled in Alaska, and another man was slain in the isolated Canadian province of Nunavut.
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