A two-year-old female polar bear paid for her curiosity when she was shot with a tranquilliser dart after constantly showing up at an oil depot facility looking for food.
The 200-kilogram (440-pound) animal was transported away via helicopter on Monday from the Toboyskoye oil field in the Nenets Autonomous Region of the Russian Arctic.
The polar bear had been carried away three times previously but kept returning in the hope she would be given further milk and canned meat.
She is now likely to end up in a zoo or on another island away from the oil field, according to local media.
“The bear was shooed away towards the coastline. Regrettably, four hours later she was back at the same production facility,” said oil worker Vadim Svishchev.
About 2,500 polar bears are believed to inhabit the Nenets Autonomous Region, and their population has continued to grow since Russia banned polar bear hunting in 1957.
“Nobody has carried out large-scale studies on their growth, but we are hoping their population is indeed growing,” said Konstantin Ponomarev, Head of the Nature Preservation Administration in the Nenets Autonomous Region.
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