When a polar bear approaches, it's always bad news, so make yourself as big and intimidating as possible to scare it away.
However, there is a case in which a starving polar bear came to appeal to humans' help due to its tongue being tightly stuck in a tin can, putting the poor animal in pain and unable to eat anything.
The polar bear was spotted in Dikson, Russia, in the far north of the Krasnoyarsk Krai region.
In the video, it starving and trying to get the can of condensed milk out of its mouth, the polar bear was recorded approaching people's homes, obviously begging them to help it.
The poor polar bear repeatedly thrust its head through a fence and asked a man to pull the can away from its mouth, before gradually dying because of the pain and hunger.
Although the man made several attempts to try and remove the can that was clamped around the bear's tongue, it was difficult to slide it off easily. So he stopped doing anything that could be more dangerous to a polar bear.
After hours, he spotted that the can lid was still largely on, locking the bear's tongue in. He did not want to pull the can too hard because it could slice the polar bear's tongue whenever he touched it.
A Moscow-based team of veterinarians is preparing to rescue a polar bear from its plight in a remote Siberian settlement.
They might have to sedate the bear to easily pull the can out of its mouth while moving it away from the village while it's asleep.
Experts have warned that polar bears would never approach humans for help once freed from their starvation. However, fears that the bear will return to Dickson to eat its would-be rescuers should be resolved by a gift the experts plan to leave for the bear.
When the bear wakes up, it will have 50kg of fish to cope with its hunger, preventing it from seeking help from the humans who were trying to help it.
