They rescue a polar bear whose tongue was stuck in a can of condensed milk

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Russian vets have managed to save a polar bear whose tongue got stuck in a can of condensed milk.

The events occurred in the northernmost part of Russia, in

, in the

region .

's natural resources watchdog

dispatched a group of veterinarians from Moscow to save the bear.

They managed to calm the animal and remove the can.

Mikhail Alshinetsky, a veterinarian at the Moscow Zoo who was part of the team that saved the bear, has claimed that the can had damaged the animal's tongue.

"You will most likely recover because the underlying muscles are not affected, but the surface skin is damaged," he stressed.

For several days, the bear will remain under observation, and then it will be transferred back to its natural habitat, where it will be supplied with fish.

Several scientists and environmental advocates have insisted in the aftermath that the food waste that draws polar bears into human communities puts these animals

.

"We are seeing a slow and steady increase in negative human-polar bear interactions, fueled in large part by shrinking polar crust, which brings more polar bears ashore for longer periods and multiple locations," he said. declared Geoff York, senior director of conservation for the NGO Polar Bears International.

In this new analysis, the researchers examined how discarded food, especially in landfills, attracts polar bears to human communities and puts them at risk.

And "we know from the world of brown and black bears in Europe and North America that dumpsters are a huge problem" for them, he noted.

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