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[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

So are polar bears considered more dangerous and aggro than grizzlies? I mean it wouldn’t be too crazy, particularly since it’s probably rare to encounter one, compare to grizzlies. But just had never really heard that.

[-] butter@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

Polar bears don't find food as readily as Grizzly bears. If a Grizzly hesitates on a salmon, it'll find another salmon.

If a Polar hesitates on a penguin, it could starve.

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Gotcha so the idea is they’re just gonna give it a shot and try to eat you, regardless, because the stakes, they are high?

To be fair, in a moral sense, they should absolutely try and eat every human they can get their claws on; we have done a bang up job on making their habitat and food sources disappear.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Their habitat has also shrunk so much, and their population dwindled so much, that they have gotten fairly inbred and that is causing more aggression and insanity.

There is also a female polar that keeps breeding with grizzlies, and those offspring are consistently more aggressive and dangerous.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 3 months ago

Inbreeding causing aggression.

Cross-breeding causing aggression.

Dammit biology

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

There is also a female polar that keeps breeding with grizzlies

what do those look like? light brown but still big af?

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