Meteorologist says bears were not aggressive but they fired signal gun to scare them away
A mother polar bear and her two cubs peer into the Polish research station in Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago.A mother polar bear and her two cubs peer into the Polish research station in Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago.Katarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs at a research station on Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests.
“That day I was on duty, the so-called station duty, when one person is in charge of the station, keeping an eye on the satellite radio, cooking or cleaning,” said Kudłacz, who has been based at the station since June. The family looked healthy, she said, and “only looked at our windows with interest”, but the team decided to fire a flare gun to frighten the bears away.
Daniel Kępski, the leader of the 46th Polish polar expedition, said they often saw polar bears, but the animals rarely stopped to look inside the research station. “It was amazing to see them so close during that day, but of course it was also a bit stressful.”
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