The hunt for a brown bear that bit a man on the elbow has been put on hold, the Norwegian environment agency has announced, in a case that angered animal rights campaigners after officials shot the wrong bear. The order had caused outrage after nature inspectors who were tracking the female bear lost the trail and then killed a male bear by mistake. However, the environment agency then said it would not cull the bears after all as they had moved south. Campaigners argued that the female bear was no more dangerous than other bears and that the risk of similar incidents was minimal. In the Norwegian case, campaigners said environmental authorities painted a misleading picture of the bear.