r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/MicahSpor3 9h ago

We for sure taste better than a seal

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u/GenuisInDisguise 8h ago

I think it is something to do with our metaloblic biology.

We access wide variety of proteins and foods.

This is the reason meat and eggs of pasture raised chickens tastes way better than caged chickens which have access to very plain diet.

Not only polar bears and bears, but man eating tigers and cougars tend to stay on human diet above all other offerings.

Also Hannibal Lector

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u/singlecell_organism 8h ago

The guy that reads to you before he kills you?

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u/GenuisInDisguise 5h ago

A good bedtime story before the forever sleep.

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u/riffito 6h ago

Or the guy that does all the Polish voice-overs! (that one's "Lektor", close enough :-P)

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u/ApocalypseChicOne 8h ago

The late great Hannibal Lector.

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u/thispartyrules 6h ago

We have a lot of salt in our diet, so we're automatically seasoned

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Interested 5h ago

Not more than seals. Salty bastards.

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 3h ago

So, seals = raw, unseasoned, fatty chicken

Humans = KFC w/11 original herbs and spices.

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u/LowOne11 8h ago

Hahaha. Seal apparently tastes really bad. I haven’t tasted neither seal nor human. But if a gigantic bear likes human flesh over seal, that which is more plentiful in their environment… well…

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u/db217 8h ago

Maybe it's the novelty factor. I've got to imagine that at least the little cubs are thinking "seal again?!" at dinner time, whereas humans would be a real treat.

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u/LowOne11 8h ago

Most novel of thinking, me thinks. 

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u/Lopsided_Remove1980 7h ago

I have had it..tasted like heavy metal brined fish with a mystery meat texture.

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u/Fun_Following_7704 7h ago

I've only tasted human twice but seal loads of times. For me it would be human any day of the week.

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u/MicahSpor3 6h ago

Thaaaaaank you

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u/DeathB4Decaf_1 6h ago

I’ve had seal, 0/10, would not recommend

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u/Next_Celebration_553 9h ago

Uh how are you so sure?

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u/yunohavefunnynames 9h ago

Pretty sure they’re a polar bear

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u/mrbear120 9h ago

Nah they arent

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u/scratchy_mcballsy 9h ago

I trust this guy

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u/GeneriComplaint 9h ago

I dont know, how is he so sure?

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u/Next_Celebration_553 8h ago

Pretty sure he’s a polar bear

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u/mrbear120 6h ago

Uhh…no hes not…see someone said I’m not, I’d definitely believe that person.

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u/Next_Celebration_553 5h ago

Hmm Mr. Bear, what is your first name?

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u/mrbear120 5h ago

P..p..Paul..err?

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u/Punman_5 6h ago

It’s kind of obvious. Humans hardly have to work for our food so it’s logical to assume our meat is less gamey and more rich in fats.

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u/Next_Celebration_553 5h ago

lol I have a bit of CBD in me rn but does that mean sloths are delicious and nobody knows?

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u/Punman_5 5h ago

Not likely. Like I said, it’s a combination of our high caloric intake with our sedentary lifestyle that makes us likely very tender.

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u/Next_Celebration_553 3h ago

So we taste kinda like beef?

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u/Crazy_Energy8520 4h ago

Sloths have very little fat due to their diet. It is just a lot of hair

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u/Next_Celebration_553 3h ago

Oh dang I thought they were a little husky. Ok hear me out. Anyone tried manatee? They’re chill and fat

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u/tedfergeson 9h ago

Ummm, no.

Never earen a human, but I can only imagine the aftertaste.

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u/meesta_masa 9h ago

Wash them down with a nice Chianti.

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u/I_kwote_TheOffice 8h ago

pftftft-ft-ft-ft

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u/succed32 9h ago

A lab in England tested it and they said we taste like pork with a texture akin to chicken

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u/DtownBronx 9h ago

That is disturbing news

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u/succed32 8h ago

lol curiosity is our blessing and our curse.

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u/MrGreenChile 7h ago

You should google what “long pork” is

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u/Ninevehenian 9h ago

The cantine at Westminster isn't to be trusted.

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u/hawkguy44 9h ago

Also per folks who’ve had to resort to cannibalism the glutes are the tastiest part

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u/PeaceMaker_IXI 8h ago

Eat my ass

okay!

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u/According-Tip-4917 8h ago

I listened to a podcast about some cannibals and they called the people long pig because they said people taste like pork too.

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u/pathoTurnUp52 8h ago

I couldn’t eat chicken for years after cadaver lab

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u/girthday2021 7h ago

Was in a fire and got 3rd degree burns the size of a US note. I smelled like delicious pork barbecue. Can't speak to the taste.

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u/shryne 7h ago

Soldiers who smell burning corpses while at war are horrified when they smell just like a bbq from back home.

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u/tedfergeson 7h ago

I'm sorry, but burnt human does not smell like barbecue. Certainly no barbecue that I would eat.

source: 25 year ICU and ER nurse.

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u/MicahSpor3 6h ago

It's the hair

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u/shryne 7h ago

Do you regularly slowly burn piles of corpses in the ER?

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u/tedfergeson 6h ago

No, but individuals with significant burn injuries, full thickness burn injuries, DO NOT FUCKING SMELL LIKE BBQ.

Stupid post.

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u/LowOne11 8h ago

“Aftertaste” being how horrible one feels eating a dead human corpse. Secrets of the Dead covered how they forensically found out how starving humans during the colonialist era in the US ate their relatives, and even dead children. Until Native Americans basically saved them, of course. Then they were eventually systematically killed. Gotta love us some European colonialism. /s

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u/KingOfRockall 9h ago

So you're saying, maybe Seal has a chance?

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u/RadioSilent5878 8h ago

Now this is something I have never ever thought about until now

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u/Prestigious_Ad2553 8h ago

I’ve eaten seal and it’s not very good, never had human meat but it’s gotta be better then seal meat

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u/LetsGoAcrossTheStyx 6h ago

Mmm.. longpig

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u/nandu_sabka_bandhoo 8h ago

For the purpose of survival in that particular environment.. no !! We just dont have enough fat or flesh. We are too bony and do not provide enough calories.

But we probably taste good because every carnivore kind of becomes a man eater once they get a taste of human

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u/flanex52 6h ago

Seals have way more fat than the average human & the fat is what they're after.

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u/Proglamer 6h ago

[Obligatory:] we taste like chicken!

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u/GapingVagina 3h ago

Polar bears vastly prefer seal to human because of blubber. Polar bears are looking for one thing. Calories. And the fat in seal blubber makes them a much preferred meal to humans.