Juan Carrito, Italy's Beloved Brown Bear, Dies in Traffic Accident
Briefly

ROME Throughout his short life, the brown bear known as Juan Carrito always made headlines.He was famous in Italy in part for being an Apennine brown bear, a critically endangered subspecies that lives in the Apennine Mountains, in an area straddling the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise regions.But he was also a personality or at least a bear whose gluttonous excursions into human territory brought him celebrity among many Italians, and who was held up as a warning by wildlife advocates.
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