Polar bear attacks
Aug07 Filed in: Nature
I was just re-reading a story I posted a while ago about a warden trapped in a locked cage with a grizzly bear. He escaped death by ... read the short story so I don't spoil it.
On the same gory vein, Mrs Ed is reading a book called North to the Night, a tale of a loony adventurer snowed up in his boat in the arctic. She just re-related the trapper joke.
Despite their rap as the most ferocious and aggressive of all bears, the Polar Bear capital of the North has only ever experienced two fatalities at the claws of furry white bears, and both times it seems as if the victims asked for it.
Sorry, but it is hard to sympathise with idiots. If you torment anything with claws and teeth, or stuff your pockets with food and walk among a hungry crowd of anything, you are asking for trouble. So let's hear it for the bears and I apologise to their families that an intelligent human shot them for acting naturally.
The following episode restores my faith in the idea that Man is top of the food chain and shouldn't fear any predator, except other men.
Ever seen a polar bear outside a zoo?
On the same gory vein, Mrs Ed is reading a book called North to the Night, a tale of a loony adventurer snowed up in his boat in the arctic. She just re-related the trapper joke.
Two trappers caught out on the ice, a polar bear is heading their way. One trapper says, "Do you think we can out run the polar bear?"
His friend replies, "I don't have to out run the bear, I have to out run you."
His friend replies, "I don't have to out run the bear, I have to out run you."
True polar bear stories
Despite their rap as the most ferocious and aggressive of all bears, the Polar Bear capital of the North has only ever experienced two fatalities at the claws of furry white bears, and both times it seems as if the victims asked for it.
Sorry, but it is hard to sympathise with idiots. If you torment anything with claws and teeth, or stuff your pockets with food and walk among a hungry crowd of anything, you are asking for trouble. So let's hear it for the bears and I apologise to their families that an intelligent human shot them for acting naturally.
The following episode restores my faith in the idea that Man is top of the food chain and shouldn't fear any predator, except other men.
. The only other thing I can recall about polar bears is that their liver is so full of protein it would kill you if you ate it. I don't know if it is true, but it sounds like a story most people would find hard to prove one way or the other....most Churchill residents are fond of their polar bears, despite occasional damage. When a bear ambled into the Royal Canadian Legion hall, the club steward shouted, "You're not a member! Get out!" The bear did
Ever seen a polar bear outside a zoo?
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