Mitsos

Mitsos, the oldest ward of the Arcturos society for the protection of the brown bear, has died, the organization announced on Wednesday.

Once a so-called dancing bear in the Peloponnesian town of Tripoli, Mitsos was seized in 1992 when he was about 3 years old and was the first bear to be inducted into Arcturos's protection program in Florina, northern Greece.

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