Unfortunate but surely if you go camping in the wilds in a place where the local Governor has issued warnings about Bears then you are taking risks? A bit like camping in a wildlife reserve with hungry lions prowling.
Polar Bear kills tourist
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They're the biggest carnivores on the planet, and they only eat meat. And their always starving, not a very good environment to take a gang of kids into.
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joinerjohn
Ahh but,,, only 5 people have been killed by polar bears in Svarlberg since the 1970's. You stand more chance of being killed going to the shops in Manchester or London.
Fair point though, polar bears are the only land mammal that will actively hunt humans.
Fair point though, polar bears are the only land mammal that will actively hunt humans.
It's Svalbard 
and the local advice is to have a high powered rifle with you when you go out of town.
These were a group of 80 people mostly young, and they were camping 25 miles out of town.
I wonder how many people they had with them with rifles.
Were they all together at the time of the attack, or did they break off into various groups.
These questions are bound to be looked at, and if they only had one gun available for a group that size someone will be in big trouble.
and the local advice is to have a high powered rifle with you when you go out of town. These were a group of 80 people mostly young, and they were camping 25 miles out of town.
I wonder how many people they had with them with rifles.
Were they all together at the time of the attack, or did they break off into various groups.
These questions are bound to be looked at, and if they only had one gun available for a group that size someone will be in big trouble.
A naturalist (Forget the name) in a steel cage studying polar bears said it was his most chilling experience amongst all carnivores.
He said unlike all others the bears didn't show any aggression, but just circled continuously and silently studying the cage and looking for a weak point....he said it was the nearest he ever came to sh****g himself.
Taking guns into the woods with a group of children in Norway is not exactly popular at the moment.
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joinerjohn
Sorry Sooey. typo error on my part, I did mean Svarlbard of course. Had it been Shrewsbury or Stoke , I'm sure I'd have spelled it correctly. (but there again there's not many polar bears in either place (maybe some bipolar people though))
(but there again there's not many polar bears in either place (maybe some bipolar people though))
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Leopards do the same..
Woods??? You'd be lucky to find a tree up there.
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Mickymoody
I don't understand why people put themselves into these situations, then when it all goes wrong, ask why?
There was a 'bear' expert on the news, that was reviewing the story, and their advice was 'I expected that the bear may have been hungry'...
There was a 'bear' expert on the news, that was reviewing the story, and their advice was 'I expected that the bear may have been hungry'...
Was the expert Bear Grylls?There was a 'bear' expert on the news, that was reviewing the story, and their advice was 'I expected that the bear may have been hungry'...
That has always been the case...
With respect to human predation,I found this interesting (Dunno if you lot will)
Scientists studying remains of early man in East Africa have only ever found the skulls of early hominids in small caves...never any other remains,just skulls.
This was a mystery for years until one scientist at his campfire in a semi desert region realised that the only trees that survived were the ones that grew out of the mouths of these caves...there being moisture available from deep underground.
He figured that the habit of leopards dragging their prey up into the branches of trees could be the answer.Having predated an early hominid and detached the head from the torso it would have fallen from the tree and bounced into the cave entrance.The rest of the torso being eaten and decomposing either in or at the base of the tree.
A bit of detective work theorising that early man was definitely part of the diet of leopards...makes sense to me.
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malcolmX
if you go into any wild animals territory on land or in the sea and get torn to pieces and eaten then whose friggin fault is that then 
When a lion attacks its intended meal, it kills it first by breaking its neck.
A bear on the other hands knocks its victim down, sits on it and then eats it while it is alive favouring the softer tissues such as the buttocks first.
When a lion attacks its intended meal, it kills it first by breaking its neck.
A bear on the other hands knocks its victim down, sits on it and then eats it while it is alive favouring the softer tissues such as the buttocks first.
