The GPS collar stopped sending signals on Sunday
A corpse of a killed bear was found in an area near the village of Arda, RIEW – Smolyan announced. The dead animal was found with a GPS collar, which can be used to judge that it was the bear that caused panic among the residents of Arda after a series of attacks on stables within the village itself.
The marked predator was found in a ravine about 50 meters from the last houses of the village. An initial examination revealed a wound in the area between the chest and abdomen. The bear was killed before a response to the request to the Ministry of Agriculture to shoot the problematic specimen arrived.
In the area where the body was found, the two small bears with which she was seen during the last attacks in the village were not noticed. The three bears were met a few days ago by a group of tourists descending an eco-trail from the panoramic site near the village of Mogilitsa.
The GPS collar stopped sending signals on Sunday. This is the same bear that was caught in September with a noose, anesthetized and transported to another part of the Rhodopes together with one of the little bears. The second bear escaped during the capture. Ten days later, the marked bear returned around Arda and Mogilitsa, where she found her second cub.
According to experts from the South Central State Enterprise in Smolyan, the bear was particularly aggressive, as it broke all its teeth during the capture, trying to break the noose.
Since the beginning of September, a total of eight damages caused by bears during attacks in the area of the villages of Arda, Gorna Arda and Mogilitsa have been confirmed, the RIEW clarified.
Four of the attacks were confirmed to have been carried out by a GPS-tagged specimen.
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