The park service says that when a bear bluff charges, it will usually have its head and ears up and forward, it will puff itself to look bigger, and bound on its front paws toward you, moving in big ...

While attacks on humans are extremely rare, polar bears are more likely to attack a person when they are “nutritionally stressed” and in “below-average body condition,” according to a 2017 ...

According to USA Today, the couple left their home at 5 a.m. to look for their dogs.When they encountered the polar bear, the bear immediately lunged at the wife, which prompted the husband to ...

When an attack occurs, the bear is often hungry, young and unwell. "A healthy polar bear that's out on the sea ice is not going to have a lot of incentive to attack a human being," said McCall to ...

Polar bear attacks are rare. A 2017 study that surveyed more than a century of conflict between humans and polar bears documented 73 incidents across the animal’s range, ...

Polar bears rarely attack, according to a 2017 study published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin. Between 1870 and 2014, there were 73 confirmed polar bear attacks distributed among the Canada ...

A husband has been seriously injured after trying to protect his wife from a polar bear attack in Fort Severn First Nation, ... from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.

Polar bear attacks on humans are rare, but last week’s was the second such fatal encounter since 2023. Last year, a polar bear killed a woman and her year-old son in a remote village in western ...

A polar bear that attacked a skier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island last week has been identified as a young female with a broken jaw, an Inuit source told ExplorersWeb. The incident ...

Although attacks by polar bears on humans are extremely rare, a study in Wildlife Society Bulletin in 2017 said the loss of sea ice from global warming has led more hungry bears to land, putting ...