This is impossible. All of the polar bears are extinct.
Yep. They are “ cute” but they don’t want to be your friend. They want to eat you.
I think there is a Scott Larsen Far Side cartoon on this exact topic.
That is a serious threat up there. You have to have your head screwed on straight all the time and aware of your surroundings, or so I am told...
Bear ping
“Best snapped photos of an enormous animal that he thought was alone — just to be cornered by a second bear lurking nearby, the report said. Both bears charged, mauling and killing him, the report revealed.”
Walked into a classic “L” ambush.
Dumbass been watching too many YouTube videos of polar bears acting all cutesy and whatnot. Yo, dumbass! Those videos are AI!
While I believe I can take a polar bear two falls out of three, two polar bears against just me would require redoubling my effort. AND I didn’t know polar bears could lurk.
Polar bears eat anything and everything. Those cutesy polar bear videos you see are captured on long telephoto lenses. The photographers are behind fences and protected with 12ga shotguns with specialized bear slugs.
Stay away from the f***ing wild animals. I’ve seen tourists in Yellowstone approaching moose with their cameras. Do not do this. Bison are worse than moose. You read about tourists getting killed in Yellowstone every so often. Polar bears are vastly worse and if they see you they will kill you. This ain’t a Disney movie.
He should have tried harder to stay of the bear’s radar.
Spitzbergen is loaded with the critters and it’s illegal to leave a building without a gun. Sad story. RIP 🙏🏻
This reminds me, in the 1980s, 11 year old boy swam into the polar bear enclosure in the Prospect Park Zoo in New York City. Unfortunately he was attacked by two polar bears and died. I remember the NYSE traders had a very dark but funny joke about it but I can’t remember it. Does anybody else remember that?
Weird. Just a night or two ago I gave thought to asking AI what it would be like to be mauled to death by a bear, except it was a black bear, the polar opposite.
I never *did* ask, though. Poor guy. Sorry.
These bears were surly from sitting on the ice, they developed chilblains and Polarrhoids.
If only there really was global warming, he’d still be alive.
Victims mother is pissed cause they didn’t have fencing around the facility....her son would have gone outside the fencing to get the pics anyway...but I feel bad for her, I can understand her reaction.
Peoples reality can be greatly affected by what they see on media representations. He might have thought the bears would ask for a Coke and pose with him. Either way....he was kinda’ too exuberant to think of the mortal danger he was in . Sic transit Gloria. SHTF all around.
That truly sucks. I feel for the guy. Wasn’t doing anything, just enjoying and photographing probably some neat photos of the bears. Underestimated potential danger.
I saw an albino polar bear once. It was black.
So apparently the tech was the slowest runner?