I would make that woman shake that bear. (If you saw that video, you know what I mean)
Dolphins: the chimps of the sea…
If it gets conditioned to see humans as prey it has to die. The End.
Yeah…same thing happens whenever a raccoon starts selling knockoff Prada bags and Seiko and Bulova watches, or a group of rats or pigeons in New York opens up a streetside “Find the Queen” card game stand. Gotta shut that shit down before they get a taste for it.
^ Grifting bastards should’ve gotten real jobs.
Polar bears are one of the few animals that actively hunt humans if they’re hungry. People should know this before encroaching on their territory. Its common sense.
Their only crime is that, unlike the moose doe hookers in Canada, they don’t have a union and their activities aren’t regulated and taxed.
Polar bears are opportunists, meaning they will hunt anything that has meat on its bones. We are animals too, and if lines are crossed we have every right as a species to prevent further loss of life. I’m just glad they went after that specific bear and didn’t go overboard, but that’s what I expect from good-natured Norwegians.
Mooseknuckles are mooseknuckles…
what dont you understand? yes, the bear killed that kid, but if it runs off afterwards and is no threat to the group at that point it shouldnt be hunted then killed.
Polar bears are known to be dangerous. They chose to encroach on its territory therefore the responsibility is on them to take proper measures to protect themselves without harming the indigenous population.
If you dont want to be attacked by a polar bear then keep the hell away from its land. The kid who was killed wasnt even Norwegian, he was British.
You didn’t post the whole story so I could only go by what you said.
I don’t care about preventative measures because incidences like these will statistically happen from time to time; heck, the reason we are all over the globe is a result of us exploring dangerous terrain. But having a polar bear who has killed a human being will condition it in some way to pursue that behavior again. We’re very easy prey, and polar bears have have superb sense of smell, with time it could easily encroach itself onto our “territory.”
It’s not about justice, it’s to prevent more cases like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack#Tara_of_the_Dudhwa_National_Park
So yes, I do understand what you are saying, I just respectfully disagree.
does tthis answer piss off anybody else
No. If an animal gets the taste for human and is know to have killed it’d be negligent to not try an eliminate them.
yall done watched too many scary movies
Agreed with omfg.
Really? Because I just linked a clear-cut case of this being an issue where dozens of people have died from predators going specifically after humans, and if you want I can link more?
Lions, tigers and bears… oh my!
They went to an island off the coast of Norway that’s inhabited by 3000 Polar bears, and they get suprised when something like this happens.
Do you know how I avoid Polar bear attacks?.. I keep the hell away from them.
first of all, that’s a pathetic case. “blahblahblah had become a man-eater” — they’re natural born killers, they’ll kill anything that’ll feed it and looks vulnerable. that’s not seeing “humans as prey”; they already see them as prey they’ve just been accustomed to eating better shit. a better case are the tigers that are old, wounded, etc. who pretty much have no choice but to eat humans. even for those though, in order to see something as prey you have to know its weapons and defenses. according to the link you sent alone tigers seem to be able to differentiate between humans that will kick ass and ones that are pretty much harmless. I imagine other hunters can do the same but that’s just speculation on my part. you say “conditioned to eat human” like they’re lining up at the human market about to get them a leg and some guts or something. that’s not how it works
i’m not even an animal rights activist or anything, it’s just stunning to me how fast people move from “don’t take life, all life is precious” to “KILL DAT MOTHAR FUCKAR!!!@$!@$@!$@!4ONEONEONE”
I honestly don’t care about that. They did what they did, and it’s unfortunate on both sides, but the fact of the matter is that the polar bear is now aware of humans as a food source and it would be just as reckless to let a predator of that magnitude roam free.
Opportunistic animals like bears go to the least path of resistance when it comes to food. And no, not all predators will actively see humans as prey just because we’re in their habitat. Otherwise great whites, killer whales, and Siberian tigers would be munching on us on a daily basis and people have lived near their respective habitats for thousands of years.
Unlike other bears which are omnivores, polar bears are exclusively carnivores; this means while a Grizzly or black bear will eat berries and shrubs if game is not available, polar bears will seek out easy prey when the time comes.
These people went into a dangerous area to dwell, but reasoning tells me this is not some random people wandering into a polar bear island but some kind of expedition. Which is why I took the time to look up the story myself:
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Chapple and the injured four were with a group of 80 taking part in a five-week Arctic expedition run by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES), a youth development charity based at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
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…and I was correct. But wait!
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Flinders said a warning tripwire system – used to scare off polar bears by triggering a flare – had failed to activate. “This time it didn’t happen apparently, and one of the other chaps came out with a rifle and tried to kill the polar bear and didn’t do it,” he said.
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So I see there weren’t just some yokels who went on vacation into polar bear territory but a trained group of people that took measures to prevent polar bear attacks. Sadly, they got a case of Murphy’s Law and had an unfortunate incident.
If these guys were just going around shooting polar bears as a way of meting out blind vengeance then I would be siding along you. The truth of the matter is- they killed this specific bear to prevent it from hunting other people. It would’ve certainly repeated the behavior if given the chance.
What kind of sentimental nonsense is going on in this thread? Are people really having more sympathy for a wild animal than human beings?
I’m not an outdoorsman by any stretch of the imagination and I’m a big believer of staying the heck away from their habitat but if an animal starts feeding on humans it’s got to go. I’m not saying to go on an indescriminate animal killing spree but steps need to be taken to protect other humans that may be at risk.
It makes no sense to sit around going “awww, it didn’t really mean it” while it’s racking up a kill count of people’s fathers, mothers, and children. It’s not like those tasked with killing the animals even enjoy the work but they at least realize it as a necessary evil.
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not the issue.
but I guess if it’s for the sake of mankind, we can do anything for any reason (edit: fucked up when i posted this). I’m gonna go kill myself now, I think I might be developing an opinion