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DAN991199 t1_j60wrqg wrote

I feel like the polar bear might have been playing with her.

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Sierra-117- OP t1_j61iqzv wrote

I don’t think so. Polar bears aren’t really docile creatures. All other bears look calm and peaceful compared to them. There’s not a lot of food in the arctic, so they eat practically anything that moves

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Poopoo_check t1_j61zisq wrote

I think what he was saying is if the bear really wanted to kill her it would’ve. Easily. No one is going to beat a polar bear in hand to hand (or paw?) contact if it is really trying to eat you. Most people would probably struggle with a black bear (again if it really wanted to eat you)

Maybe if she had a weapon, or it was injured (I didn’t read the article), but that thing would’ve ripped her to shreds if it wanted to

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Sierra-117- OP t1_j6226fl wrote

Well bears don’t automatically go for the kill. In fact, I just saw a story on Reddit about a man that encountered a grizzly and fought it off, because it was only gnawing on his thigh. He eventually got it to go away by stabbing it with a pocket knife.

I’m just saying it may not have been 100% going for the kill, but it was definitely trying to get a meal. Just the fact that it didn’t run away at a sign of resistance shows that. Polar bears don’t “play”

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losteye_enthusiast t1_j642jd0 wrote

That’s assuming the polar bear has the reasoning that you or I might have.

“Well, if I charge this weak thing, I can down it just by slamming into it. Or I’ll very slowly lower my paw onto it and make squish-cakes.”

It’s been well documented that you can scare other bears off by appearing threatening, even while being 1/6th or less of their size. They don’t understand that they’re well armed, armored tanks that can keep up with a geo metro.

They don’t know that one of the worst things they can do is give a human more time to figure something out.

If she had done anything that caused it to pause due to not being a normal action, it’s normal prey does? That easily would’ve bought time.

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