'We've Never Had This': Bear Sightings Spook Russia
Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia's Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look. She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several feet up. "We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby," Tyurneva told AFP, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear. Her sighting was one of several to spook Russians in recent weeks, as the country grapples with a spate of deadly bear attacks.
