Regardless of struggling extreme accidents to his arm and legs, a man who leapt onto a polar bear to guard his spouse throughout an assault in Ontario, Canada is predicted to recuperate.
In response to a media launch issued by the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service of Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, earlier than 5 a.m. native time, an unnamed couple “exited their house to seek out their canines” in Fort Severn First Nation. It was within the their driveway {that a} polar bear “lunged” on the girl, who slipped and fell to the bottom. This prompted the person to leap onto the polar bear, sustaining “severe however non-life-threatening accidents to his arm and legs” within the course of. The person is predicted to recuperate.
A police launch confirmed that the person had been mauled by the polar bear, earlier than which officers had been despatched to the residence “following reviews of gunfire.” Police had been “made conscious of a attainable bear sighting in the identical space,” in keeping with the discharge.
“When police arrived on scene they situated a deceased polar bear and discovered an grownup male had been transported to the group nursing station to have his accidents assessed and handled,” the assertion reads.
Per the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Alysa McCall, an professional scientist at Polar Bears Worldwide and director of conservation outreach, identified that “when the ice breaks up, [bears] come inland searching for meals,” however usually hunt seals.
McCall suggested touring in teams when in bear nation and locking up rubbish to maintain bears away. “Should you’re attacked by a polar bear, positively don’t play useless — that could be a fantasy,” she added, “Battle so long as you’ll be able to.”