And rightly so. A colleague of mine who was on a scientific mission to Svalbard interviewed the Dutch tourist who was attacked by a polar bear in his tent there. You don’t want to hear the story of being stuck head first in a polar bear’s mouth for minutes and hearing your skull crack. Or even the stories about their stalking behaviour. Those animals are scary and intelligent AF. I don’t blame any small town in a country that doesn’t usually have them for taking the safe way out.
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