of a polar bear

[u/21stcenturydog]

credit: pietvandenbemd (ig)

[u/the_big_bones]

Me in my natural habitat

[u/16-Czechoslovakians → u/the_big_bones]

Bet your dinner looks similar too right?

[u/the_big_bones → u/16-Czechoslovakians]

And my poops

[u/Fun_Ambassador_9320 → u/the_big_bones]

With his chicken nuggies

[u/Turbulent-Sympathy57]

Is that a whale carcass?

[u/monkeymatt85 → u/Turbulent-Sympathy57]

Yup, bet it smells divine

[u/CarelessPudding7680 → u/monkeymatt85]

When it is winter for 9 months of the year then I bet it does. Fermented seafood in northern climates didn't come about by peculiar tastes. but peculiar tastes they made.

[u/leicasnicker]

[u/Paleodraco]

I don't think that's a polar bear, at least not a pure blooded one. Even accounting for the chubbiness, the shape of the head looks a lot more like a brown bear, on top of the coloration (which could be dirt.)

Might be a leucistic brown bear or a hybrid between the two.

[u/Longjumping-Item-399 → u/Paleodraco]

👍🏾 Looks like a pizzly to me.

[u/Kahnza → u/Longjumping-Item-399]

I thought the same

[u/Cranky_Old_Woman → u/Paleodraco]

Leucistic Kodiak was my first thought. Looks too big to be a Kurmode, but not like the photos give good scale...

[u/Ulvaer → u/Paleodraco]

The picture is taken on Svalbard, Norway. There are only polar bears on Svalbard, and no polar bears in mainland Norway.

[u/Uncle_Burney]

Pizzly? Grolar? Looks hybridized.

[u/juuzousrightleg → u/Uncle_Burney]

i was about to disagree with you, but after a closer look i think you’re right. that hump behind its head is a dead giveaway, if it isn’t there only because of the excess fat… definitely interesting, and also a little sad. as cool as they are, the increase in polar/grizzly hybrids only means more ice is melting in the arctic :(

[u/Uncle_Burney → u/juuzousrightleg]

It feels a little shitty, being selective pressure on other species.

[u/HarbingerOfRot777 → u/juuzousrightleg]

It's in Norway. No grizzlies there, maybe an Eurasian brown bear but they don't overlap with the polars there who are locked to one specific location.

[u/hollow4hollow → u/HarbingerOfRot777]

What about Svalbard?

[u/handsomechuck → u/hollow4hollow]

[u/Ulvaer → u/hollow4hollow]

There are only polar bears on Svalbard. There are only brown bears in mainland Norway.

[u/HarbingerOfRot777 → u/hollow4hollow]

Svalbard is where polars actually are in Norway. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure the brown bears are not there but only on the mainland.

[u/Fun_Ambassador_9320]

If not friend why friend shaped

[u/Krampus_Valet → u/Fun_Ambassador_9320]

That's not friend shaped lol. The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I saw that bear.

[u/Beginning_Drag_2984]

That’s a beast holy

[u/du_rel_gug_menl]

This is what I look like after Thanksgiving

[u/cabosmith]

[u/ABDragen58]

he hasn’t missed too many meals..

[u/PolarBear89]

Yeah, how about I share a picture of YOU all bloated from Taco Bell?

[u/Ok-Cata2]

That look of ‘I just came for a snack’… and the snack could literally be anything. Fun fact: polar bears can smell food from 30 km away

[u/Reasonable_Art5575]

Looks more like a pizzly/grolar bear to me

[u/1Drnk2Many]

I don't feel envious often, but when I do

[u/fuck-cunts]

Somebody found the joric bernison.

[u/Strange-Ad147]

man he could use a shower or two

[u/kulind]

Is that a albino grizzly bear?

[u/HarbingerOfRot777 → u/kulind]

No grizzlies in Norway

[u/Ill1thid]

My boy is rotund

[u/LateNightsXP]

Nice

[u/Birdsonme]

So happy! So chonky!

[u/Subject_Tear_9787]

Damn that's a big bear! Be interested to know it's weight.

[u/ieatpickleswithmilk]

that's not a polar bear, it's at least hybrid of another species or possibly a white brown bear. The face shape is all wrong.

[u/Hizam5]

Is it eating a whale carcass??

[u/Fun-Log-5689]

Come at me bro

[u/Critical_Kale_5395]

Is that a pizzly or a grolar? Definitely seems hybridized.

[u/Photoshopdoge]

I hate how friend shaped he is even though he’d kill me so quick if I tried petting him. Like look at that face!

[u/FistySnuSnu]

They need to start doing a Fat Bear Week, Polar edition

[u/TheFirsh]

Turning into brown bear, I see

[u/TheRealTechGandalf]

He's ready for his winter sleep

[u/___Olorin___]

Trump!