俄罗斯的严冬曾经在1812年和二战期间分别阻挡了拿破仑和希特勒的大军，而今冬却出人意料的温和，创下季温新高。俄第二大城市圣彼得堡市动物园里一头母黑熊，提前两月从冬眠中醒来，而另外一头棕熊今年压根就没冬眠。
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's winter is so warm that a bear in a zoo has woken from her hibernation two months early, while another hasn't gone to sleep at all, Interfax news agency reports.
The normally ferocious Russian winter, the bane of invaders from Napoleon to Hitler, has been unusually mild this year with temperatures hitting record seasonal highs.
"For a second day we are organising extra observation of a female black bear, which has woken up because of the warmth," a spokesman for the zoo in Russia's second-largest city of St Petersburg told the agency.
"The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."
Temperatures in European Russia are forecast to fall by the end of this week, and return from a current balmy 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) to below freezing.
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