Polar Bears - Data, Pictures and Videos

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Not sure if this account is allowed, However it is from the New York Times back in 1922. It is the only one of of two accounts of polar bears actually killing a brown bear. Perhaps a polar bear might one day lose its temper and turn on a grizzly? We will never know but being much larger, it is capable of doing so.

Togni Circus, Polar Bear kills a Brown Bear out of envy.

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(Originally in Italian)
“ad un tratto un orso bianco, Narvik, aggrediva, si crede per gelosia, un orso bruno.”
“Nonostante il pronto intervento del domatore, Narvik azzannava alla gola del rivale uccidendolo.”

Here's the translation.
“suddenly a white bear, Narvik, threatened, maybe out of envy, a brown bear.”
“Although the interference of the trainer, Narvik bit his rival's throat killing him.”

Another account from the old AVA forum:

By chance, I was able to watch another video meeting on Planet Green's Expedition Alaska Episode 2 (2008) of a grizzly bear - polar bear encounter. This meeting is a different video footage from the earlier Discovery Channel film. The location in and around the Prudhoe Bay area is the same as the earlier DC documentary, however, the dynamics and end result a little different. In this case, local native hunters having completed their whale hunt (by law, they are allowed to hunt whale) left behind discarded whale meat which attracted about 40 polar bears which is amazing in of itself because of the solitary lifestyle of the polar bear. During the night a barren ground grizzly bear emerges to join and eat the left over whale meat remains. As seen in the DC documentary, the presence of the grizzly bear caused about one-third of the polar bears to exit but there were a majority two-thirds who remained (they were the larger older males). The whole Planet Green Expedition Alaska Episode 2 grizzly bear/polar bear encounter film was short in duration not even thirty seconds: GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE . The grizzly bear & polar bears ate side by side. Because the sea ice had not formed, the left over whale meat help to feed the polar bears and bridge the gap of time until the sea freezes over allowing the polar bears to move away from land and hunt seal on the frozen ice. In any event, pretty cool footage!

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/animalsversesanimals/fox-basin-polar-bear-vs-katmai-grizzly-t4055.html

It seems the larger and older males are less likely to be frighten off. Generally younger bears are more skittish than their older counterparts. Reply