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Hotspur@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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- ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Inbreeding causing aggression.
  
  Cross-breeding causing aggression.
  
  Dammit biology
  
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- MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

because the stakes, they are high?

I also heard it’s because a typical polar bear has never encountered anything that moves that isn’t food.

So they don’t have any mental category for “moving things on the ice I should flee from” or even “moving things on the ice that isn’t totally delicious”.

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TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

because the stakes, they are high?

I guess it depends on how much you smoked that day.

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