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Polar bears, particularly starving males, will hunt humans for food, though attacks on humans by female bears are rare. The earliest recorded account of a polar bear attack was written in 1595. It described a predatory attack on two people from Willem Barentsz's crew in the Russian Arctic. Between 1870 and 2014, out of 73 recorded polar bear ...
USA, Wales, Alaska — Myomick was attacked and killed by a polar bear in the small village of Wales, Alaska. The attack happened at 2:30 pm. The polar bear had chased several residents of the community, before it killed the woman and her 1-year-old son. The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair. [46] [47]
On 5 August 2011, a polar bear in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard attacked a party of 13 university students, who were undertaking an expedition organised by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES), and were camped near the Von Post glacier, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the settlement of Longyearbyen. [1]
Alysa McCall, director of conservation outreach and a staff scientist at Polar Bear International, told CBS News partner CBC that polar bears rarely attack humans. When an attack occurs, the bear ...
A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least the second fatal polar bear attack since ...
A rare attack by two polar bears has killed a worker at a remote radar station in the Canadian Arctic. The unidentified victim was attacked and killed by the bears at the facility in Nunavut ...
Although humans can be attacked by many kinds of non-human animals, man-eating animals are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet and actively hunt and kill humans. Most reported cases of man-eaters have involved lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and large crocodilians.
If you eat polar bear liver it will kill a human and if a polar bear eats your liver it will too. Image credits: wetlettuce42 #11. For me it is that the lighter was invented before matches.