14 DAY TRIAL // Humans sure have a gift for toying with wild animals, and it appears that destroying their natural habitats and hunting them up to the point of extinction simply isn't enough anymore.
Quite the contrary: getting them to behave in unnatural ways is now also part and parcel of the manner in which human society harms wildlife.
Long story short, news from Russia says that some of the bears living in and around the Kronotsky Nature Reserve in the country's far east are now addicted to aviation fuel.
More precisely, the bears track down the barrels of kerosene and gasoline left behind by the people working for said animal sanctuary, sniff their contents, pass out and return for more not long after they have regained consciousness.
As well as this, it appears that these animals wait for helicopters to take off and then go looking for whatever drops of fuel might have leaked on the ground.
TVNZ reports that, of these bears, a female named Suzemka appears to be utterly fascinated by the smell of fuel.