Polar Bear takes a Bite out of Sub

[INRM]

Anyone hear evidence of this?

-INRM

[Tony]

http://206.66.154.48/QEstate/im/half_sub.gif


Can you blame him? Yum. :)

[Agammamon]

Yeah, it was a small article in the last issue of the Navy Times. An American sub doing under-ice training surface through the ice pack. Apparently there was a Polar Bear nearby who ambled over to see if this strange black thing tasted good. They had a picture (taken from the sail) of the bear trying to bite the rudder.

[zakur]

Bear snacks on US sub (http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6510163%5E13762,00.html)

[Skeptical Greg]

I think they are making a lot of assumptions about the the bear thinking the sub was something to eat..

I highly doubt that the smell of the sub made the bear consider such a thing, unless it was covered with seal oil....

[LCBOY]

Most likey the bear was just curious about the sub. I saw this photo on www.snopes.com.

[Andonyx]

Originally posted by Diogenes
I think they are making a lot of assumptions about the the bear thinking the sub was something to eat..

I highly doubt that the smell of the sub made the bear consider such a thing, unless it was covered with seal oil....

Actually, an article I read just last night may contradict that notion.

In This Book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393321509/qid%3D1054754921/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-9947592-6392762) They discuss the idea that Polar Bears are the only bears likely to eat humans....

As is turns out, Polar Bears do not hibernate like other bears in winter. As a result, they have to scramble overtime in the cold to consume enough calories to keep their huge bodies heated. It makes it twice as desperate a situtaion since there is far less food in terms of wild-life out during the winter.

The book comes to the conlusion that Polar Bears don't seek out human snacks per-se but that during the winter, anything they see moving on the ice, that is not an immediate family member, can be considered "possible food."

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by Andonyx


Actually, an article I read just last night may contradict that notion.

In This Book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393321509/qid%3D1054754921/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-9947592-6392762) They discuss the idea that Polar Bears are the only bears likely to eat humans....

As is turns out, Polar Bears do not hibernate like other bears in winter. As a result, they have to scramble overtime in the cold to consume enough calories to keep their huge bodies heated. It makes it twice as desperate a situtaion since there is far less food in terms of wild-life out during the winter.

The book comes to the conlusion that Polar Bears don't seek out human snacks per-se but that during the winter, anything they see moving on the ice, that is not an immediate family member, can be considered "possible food."

And what does that have to do with taking a bite out of a submarine?

Is the bear trying to open a 'can' of humans?:D

[Andonyx]

Originally posted by Diogenes


And what does that have to do with taking a bite out of a submarine?

Is the bear trying to open a 'can' of humans?:D

Well, if he saw it move up through the ice....He could have reasonably mistaken it for a living creature....at least until he got close.

I'm not saying he spent an hour trying to eat the thing. But My first guess is he wouldn't have wasted the time to come up and examine it if he didn't at some point think there could be food involved.

[Tricky]

I suggest that they were simply witnessing the "depressive" phase of a bipolar bear.