" Have bears never killed humans before, or have jealous males not killed and perhaps eaten cubs, as is common in some species?"
- Polar bears are extremely dangerous and anyone who enters their hunting area without a rifle is looking to get eaten. As you can imagine, food in the Arctic is scarce and Polar bears will go after anything that moves and that includes cubs who may have lost the protection of their mother.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Extreme environmentalists would undermine society based on the kind of flimsy or flatly false evidence adduced in this article.
You must have read that story some years back about a group of nine or ten Norwegians who were hiking somewhere north of the Arctic Circle in p-bear country. Suddenly a bear emerged from wherever the heck it was and proceeded to kill and eat one of the members of the group. Since no one had bothered to bring a rifle, the surviving members were forced to watch helplessly as the bear made a meal out of one their members.