His real name ?
Isbjorn N23992: a 17-year-old female polar bear from the mountainous archipelago of Svalbard, a Norwegian territory located between Greenland and King George Island, in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
Last September, the animal nicknamed Frost and her cubs once again broke into holiday cabins in this region, which is very popular with polar tourism.
Why ?
Probably to look for food there.
On the Svalbardposten website, which relates the case, photos of the interiors of devastated buildings follow that of a polar bear standing against the door of a cabin.
Faced with the multiplication of these incidents, and with the arrival of the polar night which plunges the archipelago into darkness for several weeks, a local elected official believes that it could be preferable to euthanize Frost to avoid a tragedy - in particular with the children going to school.
Although up to this day, Frost has never hurt anyone.
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