Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture

Norway's superior Oslo has unveiled a statue of a walrus who was a fashionable attraction but was past enactment down due to the fact that of nationalist information concerns.

The life-size bronze sculpture depicts Freya lying connected her broadside connected a shore.

"This is however humans dainty chaotic nature, but it is besides however humans dainty humans. This is however we treated Freya. And so, I volition telephone the statue For Our Sins," creator Astri Tonoian said.

An online run earlier raised $25,000 (£19,900) to marque the statue.

"I started this due to the fact that I'm furious astir the mode the [Norwegian] Fisheries Directorate and the authorities handled this situation," run organiser Erik Holm told the AFP quality agency.

Freya - who weighed astir 600kg (1,3000lb) - was enactment down successful August, triggering disapproval crossed the Nordic nation.

The mammal roseate to fame aft clambering onto boats to sunbathe - sometimes sinking them.

The section authorities aboriginal said radical had ignored warnings not to get excessively adjacent to the animal, putting her and themselves astatine risk.

On 1 occasion, constabulary blocked disconnected a bathing country aft the walrus chased a pistillate into the water, section media reported astatine the time.

Norway's fisheries ministry besides issued a photograph of a ample radical of people, including children, lasting wrong touching region of the animal.

"Through on-site observations the past week it was made wide that the nationalist has disregarded the existent proposal to support a wide region to the walrus. Therefore, the directorate has concluded, the anticipation for imaginable harm to radical was precocious and carnal payment was not being maintained," Mr Bakke-Jensen said.

The cognition to euthanise her had been carried retired "in a humane fashion", with the assemblage taken for further introspection by vets, helium said.

Freya, archetypal spotted successful Oslo successful mid-July, was named aft the Norse goddess of quality and love.

A protected species, walruses usually unrecorded further northbound successful the Arctic.

They bash not usually onslaught humans, but determination person been immoderate uncommon incidents.

At a wildlife parkland successful China successful 2016, a tourer and a zookeeper were killed by a walrus. The tourer had reportedly been taking selfies with the carnal erstwhile helium was grabbed and pulled underwater, portion the keeper went successful to rescue him but was besides pulled under.

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