Bear causes stir in Austrian province
A young brown bear that emerged from dense forests in the south-western Austrian province of Vorarlberg and attacked three sheep in a stall earlier this week has become the talk of the town in the region, where the species was last spotted in 1860.
Rochus Schertler, a local biologist, today told Austrian television that experts were trying to determine if the bear, which made its appearance on Tuesday evening in the village of Galgenul, is “JJ II”, a young brown bear that made periodic appearances last year in the province of Tyrol and in nearby Switzerland.
