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This is bad for the humans and bad for the bears. They're not cute teddies, they're apex predators and should not come to associate humans with food.

That’s fucking terrifying. lol

A bear? Ok.

A bear with cubs? Instant death.

The next scenes were the bear ripping him to shreds and the bear family feeding on his corpse.

I had a college friend who went on expeditions to Churchill, Manitoba during the summer. These were animal-loving biologists, but they always carried a rifle with them because you never, ever fuck around with polar bears.

I asked him if he ever had any encounters and he related one story where they helicoptered out to a remote sight to research something. While they were working they noticed a polar bear in the distance. The bear started circling them and getting closer. Finally they told the pilot to fire up the "chopper". He did so as they started collecting their equipment.

My buddy said the scariest part was when the helicopter started, the bear made a direct line for them and began moving faster. Instead of being afraid of the noise it became more interested. The biologist abandoned their equipment and ran for the helicopter when the bear started trotting towards them.

They got in the helicopter and took off. The pilot hovered towards the bear thinking it would get scared or at least be annoyed by the rotor downwash. Instead, the bear got even more aggressive—getting up on its hind legs and swatting at the helicopter. Eventually the party realized that the bear wasn’t going to leave, and they needed to watch their fuel, so they headed back to basecamp.

They flew out later to retrieve their equipment and found that the bear had gone through it. The bear smashed what it could, and ripped apart what it could. I asked him if the bear was looking for food. He said “no”, the bear was pissed off and wanted to send a message.

I didn’t know anything about polar bears at the time and asked my buddy what was wrong with the bear. He said that was normal behavior for polar bears because they are the highest predator on the food chain in the Arctic, and have no fear of man. In fact, they have a nasty habit of eating people when they get the chance.

Again, you never, ever fuck around with polar bears.

For context, this guy fed this bear when it was a cub. These encounters happened after the PB learned to hunt on it's own. Before that, the guy in the picture played a parental role, as it's parent had been killed by a hunter.

My mom's a pushover if you get to know her.

That's not brave but stupid.

NatSoc, love you. Merry Christmas. You music still sucks.

Any of you guys see that Werner Herzog documentary about the bear enthusiast that got eaten by grizzlies?

The bear ate him right after that.

not shown is the man being vicously mauled by the mother bear because mother bears are bipolar (heh) as fuck

It makes you a lunatic. And it habituates these animals to people. Its just stupid. Wild animals don’t want or need to be petted or treated.

Looks like that cub is doing as much chewing as hugging. Cute.

I encounter the exact same thing all the time with my black bears...I had a cub on each leg just like little kids and all the while mama bear was wandering around checking out the new feed stations....FUCK I LUV MY BEARS.

I always heard Polar bears were more vicious and dangerous than Kodiak's or whatever.