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The authorities later claimed to have hunted down and killed the animal, although conservationists said later there was clear evidence they had shot a different bear.

“Be the hunter instead of the hunted,” Roberts said last week, as the club opened its season with a two-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo.

The animals had once roamed the area before being hunted to extinction there; scientists were seeking to reestablish the species.

Vehicles were often hunted by multiple drones, he said.

It’s been a century since the grizzly bear was hunted to extinction in California, leaving only its image, ironically, on the state flag.