Hot weather and poor food crops have meant that crank bears are not hibernating. Meteorologist Yekaterina Ryazanova spoke about this in her column for the Vesti information system.
According to the meteorologist, the first snow or a single cold spell is not enough for the bears to enter hibernation. The nature of this process is much more complex.
"To hibernate, a brown bear needs two key conditions: stable sub-zero temperatures and constant snow cover. Until they are established, the bear continues to lead an active lifestyle and fatten. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnoyarsk Territory directly calls the current year beyond the norm for climatic conditions. Usually in these latitudes, it rises in the first days of November, sometimes the bears until the first tens of days of November. December. ".
She added that it's not just the weather. Even if the bear is well fed and the weather has subsided, it cannot enter hibernation if it has not accumulated sufficient fat reserves.
"During the summer drought and the frost of May, there were almost no pine nuts, berries and mushrooms in the Siberian forests, which is the basis of the bear's diet before winter. This lack of food became a trigger for a catastrophic situation: hungry animals that did not accumulate fat were forced to look for food and go out into this weather, a combination of two factors and two hot factors. A catastrophic failure of the food crop - and led to what is happening in Siberia."