Bear cub bites into woman's face 'because she smelled like fish

Bear cub sinks its teeth into woman’s face ‘because she smelled like fish’: Animal chomps on victim’s chin at Russian park after she ate a salmon salad

• Madina sat on a park bench in the Russian city of Grozny for a photo with the cub
• The bear owner was making money by charging for photos with the young bear 
• Although initially enjoying the bear’s attentions, the encounter soon turns dark
• The underfed bear could smell the salmon salad that Medina had just eaten
• Madina was rushed to hospital and given jabs for tetanus and rabies  

A shocking video shows the agonising moment a performing brown bear cub bites the chin of a young woman who had just eaten a salmon salad with a ‘death grip’.

The wild beast was with its owner who was using it as a real-life prop to entice passersby to pay to take photos when the woman in the video, Madina, sat down for a picture.

The hungry cub clambered over to her with seemingly endearing curiosity as Madina smiled and welcomed its sniffing licks at a main park in the Russian city of Grozny. 

But the bear cub could ‘smell the salmon salad’ she had just eaten and in a moment of unexpected ferocity lunged forwards and sank its teeth into her chin.

‘The poor animal was hungry,’ she said afterwards. ‘The little bear climbed up to me, crying.

‘When he got close to my face, I wanted to remove him, but due to hunger, his reflex kicked in and he clenched his teeth on my chin.

‘They couldn’t take him away from me.’

This is the shocking moment a performing brown bear cub bites the chin of a young woman who had just eaten a salmon salad with a ‘death grip’

At first Madina, the girl in the pictures, enjoys the attentions of the bear cub, although she starts to feel a little apprehensive moments before it attacked

Madina’s sister, who was filming, immediately put down the camera to help remove the bear’s jaws from her chin

Madina registered a complaint against the owner of the bear who had tried to blame her for the attack but has now pleaded with Madina to withdraw her police complaint

The camera caught the moment of the vicious bite.

‘They have a death grip,’ she said. ‘The owner herself could not do anything. My sister and I tore it off me.

‘There was a lot of blood where he bit me. They thought at first he had taken a mouthful of my flesh.’

Park-goers rushed to help Madina as she waited for an ambulance. ‘They reacted so quickly,’ she said.

Madina was given injections for rabies and tetanus, but suffered no permanent damage.

After leaving hospital, she registered a complaint with the police. The video – filmed by her sister – is now the key evidence.

‘The owner of the animal blamed me, saying I provoked the bear, but the video shows this is not the case,’ she said.

‘The bear also bit a policeman’s hand. He, too, was given an injection. The little bear was hungry.

‘He was fed baby formula. But feeding such animals food for children is wrong.

‘They should have other food, but it is expensive, and the owner wants to earn money with the bear.

‘It was not fed properly, and without a muzzle.’

The bear has not been put into care in the zoo and taken away from the woman who said she paid £185 for it.

Madina has offered to pay for food for the bear.

She rejected a plea from the owner to withdraw her complaint.

‘I am against torturing animals,’ she said.

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