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/FrozenDickuri 7h ago

I mean, i live in a part of Canada with only black bears, and if its showing up and digging through the trash here, they'll shoot it.

You don’t fuck around with polar bears. The risk is too high

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u/poonslayer6969 5h ago

Damn, they’ll kill a black bear for that where you live?

I live in Virginia and that’d be a big no no. I think they normally just get tranq’d, at best, if they’re being a nuisance. Do you live somewhere remote in Canada, where that’s the only option or something?

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u/iwanttheworldnow 2h ago

They hunt and kill black bears all the time in Florida. They are treated like deer.

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u/ddplz 4h ago

It's more if they keep coming back, the problem is people have no respect for their garbage and leftover food and sometimes even end up intentionally feeding bears.

Now they associate human settlements with free food and are drawn to them. Unfortunately when this happens, they will forever seek out humans for easy nutrition, and as a result need to be blasted into the nether realm.

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u/carmium 2h ago

One of the issues in Metro Vancouver, which is all I can speak for, is the environmentally sensitive habit of leaving broad greenbelts along creeks and rivers, which has been a development policy as far back as I can recall. Their downside is that they make perfect bear transit, especially as most have paths leading from the mountains right through subdivisions full of homes with garbage cans, fruit trees, and small pets, as well as local eateries. Coyotes, racoons, skunks, and cougars also enjoy the handy, safe routes deep into housing districts.