Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:27:35 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Ultimate ... Bears
Comments: To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net>
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I saw a Nat. Geo special on TV long ago.  Polar bears near Baffin Bay(?)
maybe.  Anyhow, they'd built a 'habitat' for the photographers and the bears
were supposed to 'get used to it' and ignore it after a while.  But the
bears saw the photogs go inside, somehow..Anyhow, they became hungry and sat
round outside the big box of photographers, waiting for lunch...Sat out
there for days...Like they do around a seal hole in the ice, I guess.  Then
they started bashing at the doors...standing up on their hind legs like
boxers and punching the box of men...
  Pretty spectacular footage...the guys finally got out by being rescued by
a big snow cat.  They did mention that Polar bears do consider everything
alive a food source...Prey...I bet those fellas had to change their long
johns after that...
  Don Hanson
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net> wrote:

> Of all bears you can probably trust Polars the most.  Trust that they are
> hungry and anything alive near them is food.  In their domain they are king
> and all else is there for them to eat.
>
> Mark in AK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:37 pm
> Subject: Re: Ultimate ... Bears
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> > I believe I posted this last year.  Not me in the pic, though.
> >
> http://picasaweb.google.com/sandwichhead/BearAttack?authkey=Gv1sRgCOqytMWH9oa1qAE&feat=directlink
> > Michael in San Antonio
> > 91GL AT 'Gringo'
> > 73 Beetle
> >
> >
> >
>