Bear caught by Zug in Salzburg had killed sheep in Bavaria

2023-07-04 06:06:48

The bear killed by a train in Salzburg’s Pongau on May 23 killed two sheep shortly before in Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria. This was the result of a genetic comparison, the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) announced on Monday. Two dead animals from the Berchtesgadener Land were reported to the office on May 15, in which the DNA of a brown bear was detected.
An exchange of samples between the Natural History Museum in Vienna and the Senckenberg Institute now proves that it is the male bear that was hit by a train in May. “Current evidence of a brown bear in Upper Bavaria is not available to the LfU.”