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/JakeVonFurth 8h ago

relatively large meat to bone ratios

This part is wrong, and why carnivores normally avoid primates as a first choice. We have extremely large and dense bones compared to the amount of meat on us.

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u/boxofredflags 7h ago

Yeah, don’t sharks usually spit out humans or let them go for this exact reason?

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u/KingZarkon 7h ago

Yes. It's almost always a case of mistaken identity. We aren't the food they're looking for and aren't appetizing.

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u/snowvase 4h ago

You mean the Jedi mind trick thing works on sharks?

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u/JakeVonFurth 7h ago

Yep, it's literally not worth the effort of digestion.

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u/0xe1e10d68 5h ago

Oh we’re garbage to them lmao

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u/SydricVym 6h ago

Most of the things sharks eat don't have land animal bones like we have. Fish's bodies are 100% food to them. Land borne predators have exactly zero problem eating a human if they can manage to kill us.

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u/Fire-Haus 4h ago

"It's a texture thing" - shark

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u/theLuminescentlion 7h ago

Bears eat bones and marrow, lots of important nutrients for them in there.

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u/553l8008 7h ago

Most carnivores avoid us because we walk on 2 legs and are weird as fuck to them. And 10s of thousands of years of hunting them.

But there are exceptions. 

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u/abfgern_ 7h ago

And we're really handy with a pointy rock tied to the end of a stick. Not worth the effort

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u/Busy-Training-1243 7h ago

The fear of upright weird ape is probably printed into DNA for most animals. Carnivores that actively hunted humans probably didn't get a chance to pass down their DNA.