all of the other bears on that list may very well attack you with fatal results if they decide you’re a threat or an interloper, but the polar bear is the one that WANTS to eat you, and if you’re not careful, WILL eat you.
prey is scarce in the arctic and polar bears are big animals, so they’ve evolved to be long-distance stalking predators that will NEVER turn down a warm meaty meal, weird opposable thumbs or no!
if you see a polar bear in the arctic, even if you’re with a group, take extra care the next few days to make sure that it’s REALLY gone and not just following you at a distance to learn your habits and ambush you when you least expect it!
more than one arctic researcher didn’t change up their routine often enough and opened the station door for their smoke break only to find a polar bear waiting for them patiently on the other side, at which point they were dragged off onto the ice and never seen again.
I would say it’s a grizzly fate, but that pun would be unbearable.
cicanaci
