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Sierra-117- OP t1_j6226fl wrote

Reply to comment by Poopoo_check in TIL Lydia Angiyou, a Canadian mother, fought off a polar bear bare handed to protect her son and other children, before a hunter shot it 4 times to bring it down by Sierra-117-

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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