Polar bear hunts a fox hiding in a barrel

The shift workers in Sabetta were surprised in this video to see the bear helping itself to a polar fox hiding in an empty barrel.

Usually polar bears feast on seals and young walruses, or scavenge the carcasses of whales. 

If these are in short supply they also kill reindeer, muskox and geese.

Polar foxes are rarer - but this bear brazenly wandered into the facility in the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye gas field on the Yamal peninsula and caught the fox, taking the snared animal away in its teeth as another bear looked on.

Other polar foxes circled but did not dare take on the bear.

In the video one oil worker is heard saying: ‘This cannot be shown to children!' 

Another asked: 'Did he grab a polar fox?' 

Worker 1: 'Yes'

Worker  2: 'Wow!' 

Worker 1: 'That's it. Meat.'

Worker 2: 'You better do not mess with this bear, he loves meat.' 

Worker 1 (to colleagues just arriving): 'You missed such a sight, He caught a polar fox! He took it from the barrel.’