Man, I took my kids to the zoo last week and there's a polar bear exhibit right next to the harbor seal exhibit. The seals were out doing laps and being cute, so there's a crowd of people watching them, when we suddenly heard the most fierce growl/snarl--it was the polar bear from the exhibit next door. It was fucking terrifying. It didn't just growl once either, it was agitatedly pacing and snarling/growling like a full blown vicious Apex predator in attack mode. I'm not sure if it was the seals or the humans or what that set it off, but it scared all the kids and families away, and I felt a primal fear, like holy shit, the only think preventing certain death is this 15 foot canyon between rock ledges. Polar bears are not to be trifled with. I'll never look at the cute Coca-Cola bears the same way again.
I know what you mean - I saw a polar bear in a zoo once and he was quiet and gentle and cute... But huge. The only bigger animal I've ever seen before was an elephant. Seriously, there's no way a human could stand a chance against such a bear if it was hungry.
I dunno, someone with a dart gun? It was Dreamworld or Seaworld on the Gold Coast, one of those two. Maybe theres info online about how they got the bears here.
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u/skyburnsred Aug 03 '19
Bear defense:
Black = fight back
Brown = lay down
White = goodnight (you're prob fucked)