Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    but can they actually go fishing for food? If a wild animal is wandering into human territory, there is usually a resource-limiting reason for it.

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      1 month ago

      According to Iceland the entire island is human territory. I’m going to press F to doubt.

      And they very much can. This was a rural home, not some suburb. But even that wouldn’t be the first time in the North.