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The Museum Mensch und Natur (English Museum of Man and Nature) is a natural history museum. It is a tenant of the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany.
In 2006, the museum was due to receive the stuffed and mounted body of "Bear JJ1", nicknamed "Bruno" in the German-language press, a brown bear that was shot dead by a hunter as a public safety measure after several unsuccessful efforts to capture him alive. [1] (JJ1 had been part of a wildlife restoration program in Italy but walked across Austria into Germany.) [2] The bear will be put on display next to the last bear previously killed (in 1835) in Bavaria.
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