Polish brown bear crosses border in search of mate

Warsaw, Poland: A Polish brown bear went a wooing, little knowing that scientists were following all the way.

Starting from the Tatra Mountains, the bear crossed borders and a highway as it covered some 380 kilometres ( 235 miles). Nuria Selva, a researcher with the Polish

Academy of Sciences, said she found it fascinating that the 5- year- old bear, collared last year and named Iwo, cleverly avoided danger. Walking through Slovakia to Hungary, he avoided vil

lages and apparently crossed fields at night to avoid people. He crossed a highway in Slovakia and swam across the Ondava River. He turned back in Hungary, where no bears

live, and returned to Poland’s Bieszczady region, a bear habitat. To a happy

ending?