EXCLUSIVE: Male Polar Bear Chases and Eats Cub | National Geographic
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Polar bear cannibalism likely isn't a rare event, but it's rarely witnessed by people. This may be the first time it's been captured so well on video. During a Lindblad Expeditions trip on the National Geographic Explorer in the Arctic, crew and passengers spotted a male polar bear hunting and then eating a polar bear cub, despite the efforts of the cub's mother to protect it. Experts say this cannibalistic behavior could be occurring more regularly, because the loss of ice due to climate change makes it harder for the bears to get to their typical food sources.
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Smoked a lil weed, started lookin up lions and now im here.... WELP...
I went from whale hunting, to arctic grocery store prices, to seals, to polar bears and now I’m here 🤷🏼♂️
Lmao same bro
Yoooo same 😂😂😂
Same Im stoned right now
@@arrezz2078 mexican guy high on weed. just another day on earth
Just made my depressing day even more depressing...
You saw the title on the video and the warning at the beggining at the video, you just wants notice scrub
+Gloid Beginning* And instead of "You just wants notice" you should be typing "You just want attention".
+BliQz He can type whatever he wants to get his point across.
Mr.Light I respect his points, but I despite his lack of grammar.
BliQz If you want to talk about his grammar, how does this make sense; "I respect his points, but I *despite* his lack of grammar."
I love how almost every mother in the animal kingdom, yes humans included, would protect their young even if it seems impossible... Videos like these make me think that maybe my mother really loved me...
She did 💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏
she did,but it was not easy you brat.
@@MrWheelright 😂
mr wheelright shut up
humans?? I don't think so. Go visit a Planned Parenthood? Clinic
The mother knew straight away to try and run away with her cub as soon as she spotted the male so this obviously happens more than we would like to think.
Not necessarily. It was really intuition.
@@enzop2835 bears are cannibles this is what they do eat each other Nature doesn’t equate to what you see on Disney channel
Did you watch the video?
That polar bear was smart though. She knew it was too late to save her young so she switched gears and got the heck out of there. It's sad for the little polar bear but there was nothing she could do and she knew it. Nature can be cruel sometimes.
+LittlePolarBear Gave you thumbs up!
Just read your name too hahahaha
+LittlePolarBear your right
+LittlePolarBear i feel like she could have fought a little harder comapred to how other types of animals relentlessly prtoect their children.
+LittlePolarBear You have a 30 second head start...
No. She could have faught the male off. Weak female
poor mom, really sad..-
Awwww mom😥
I feel so bad! That poor mother and baby cub....
Don’t suicide as it’s wrong. Contact a psychiatrist to know how and why suicide is wrong as they are trained to explain you well.
You mean useless mom
;(
The grief of losing a child is sad for everyone, even animals😔😔
Tbf this female didn’t really put up much of a fight
Even animals...? Humans are also animals...
@@HkFinn83 She was smart, a male is immensely more powerful than the female and both would of died needlessly. She knows she can go on and birth another cub if she escapes, nothing more than reproductive instinct to escape.
And you don’t even have no distractions you just out there in the cold
Yes. Tell that to the Polar Bears who eat their Young to stay alive.
polar bears are one of the last carnivores you want to be-friend
There are very little carnivores on this planet that you want to be-friend...
@@doug2555 big floppa
RIP my nigga lil polar bear
Bears are just like people. These polar bears will be ok. When the ice melts the polar bears will take the brown bears land. Then they will enslave the black bears and make the panda bears build them a railroad. Don't be worrying about the polar bears.
LOL.
YRN GLo lol thats good
YRN GLo pandas are almost extinct
Thanks for the laugh, buddy. A bit of black comedy is always welcome.
and then the black bears will destroy the whole bear society by leeching of the other bears and having 0 survival skills.
What I found fascinating was humans trying to "rationalize" nature... as if it was needed.
For real this doesn’t seem normal or as it was put “ life in the Artic “
It is needed for people not to understanding why. So we won't interfere.
Last Drop Falls yes they eat there own young in situations but it’s the mother or father but idk about them going after young not there own like a meal. Idk if polar bears are known for consuming there own young ?
@@alejandrovargas9825 their*
almarjyou 😂 OK
All bears do this. That’s what makes them so cuddly and people anthropomorphize them.
Big word
Tim Smith Cuddly? Really?
@@jlastre yeah cuddly ...palm slsp
Tim Smith Yeh. Got into the habit of using polysyllabic words, or "big words" as you put it, in high school. Silly me.
They’re Hillary Clintons spirit animal.
I thought they just drank coca cola.
And the blood of young.
whereistherealslimshady? polar bear drink coca cola with blood lol
You know what's Ironic? You made me waste perfectly good coca cola from laughing to hard at this.
whereistherealslimshady? 😂
😂
It's estimated that for every one time a human is able to film an event, it's happening between 500 and 5000 times in nature at other times.
Estimated by who? This person can tell us about the existence of god
@@mogamethanuI’m guessing he thinks animals only recently started doing this cause cameras were about to be invented
Source: Trust me bro
This broke my heart, but nature will be nature
thats not normal its due to climate change
T J So male animals weren’t ever known to kill the young for survival (eating and reproduction). Okay 🤔
Pupijim Maxkablas Bears are known for killing cubs for food or to initiate receptivity in the mother bear again. Species have been doing this long before climate change
Gave me chills
@@pupijimm8870
You're utterly braindead.
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
It's very painfull to see this but sometimes hunger has no love and mercy.
It's not about hunger. It's about bringing the female back into estrus. Happens all the time with lions and some other species.
Polar bears are the most deadly bears, and they eat everything they see... even you.
They're gonna eat this Spas-12 too?
Polar bears were never the lovable species media/advertising made them out to be lol
Glad people see that now!
Even tigers lions do this ..so wat?
Most carnivores are like this. What do you expect them to do when food are scarce? Resort to vegan diet?
@@boronir Exactly! Sure, cannablism is sad and violent, mostly in animals. But the animal has been starved.
@@boronir That doesn't make it any more lovely. Just because it's nature doesn't mean it's not sickening
How does this make them less lovable? Almost every carnivorous species of animal cannibalizes when food is scarce. Other iconic predators such as lions and tigers do the same thing. This method of survival isn’t gonna make people think of polar bears otherwise. They’re still a lovable species. Just remember those cute little hamsters you see at ur local pet shop... yeah they’re cannibals.
Natgeo: this is life in the ice, this affirms life its normal.
Also natgeo: this wouldnt happen so much if it werent for climate change.
I dont know why but I am starting to watch penguins and polar bears
It's really sad that she couldn't fend the male off, but it's also lucky that she got out of there alive since the male was so intent on attacking the poor cub and didn't also injure or kill her in the process.
did not seem she gave it her best to fight for her cub maybe she was afraid the male would attack her
Polar bears rarely fight/hunt something that won't give them immediate returns and will waste a lot of energy. The cub was an easy prey, the mother isn't. Therefore, he won't fight with the mother in order to save energy.
What they failed to mention was this has been documented since Polar Bears were first studied
Its the same with most species of Bears - killing cubs that are not theirs increases their own spawns chances of survival
THIS is why male Bears are hunted in Canada, 60 Grand paid per male per hunter and a total of 600 annually in a controlled way
SAVES the babies!
very informative. Thanks
It saves the babies, which their turn later on will be hunted and killed to.. save the babies and it's infinite loop.
just let nature regulate itself, idk why humans feel the need to play god and control it
No pity here just turning the tables when a polar bear with her cub catch a baby seal. If food is becoming so scarce in the Arctic why not transport wild boar in the summer season that seem to have overtaken alot of the land in Texas and other Southwestern states? It would be interesting to see how they would adapt to the environment and either enhance or alter it.
Imagine being a mom in an already very lonely and bleak place, losing probably the only other thing you’ll ever love. Something you spent months of hunger feeding and nurturing, keeping warm. Just to watch it die to the very thing that helped you create it.
it will have another baby
They are machines with no feelings, pure instinct.
@@joecramerone clearly not true. Mothering instinct was extremely powerful (after all she did not eat her own cub). The truth is somewhere in between.
I don’t think they care as much as humans. They’re literal killing machines.
@@joecramerone lies bro some animals mourn for deaths of other animals, especially birds.
If you didnt know, this happens more often than you think cause a polar bear's life is one of the toughest on the planet.
Polar Bears aren’t the only ones that do these kind of actions
Lions are no exception
Makes you see animals from a different perspective
But one question begs to be asked. In what perspective do people see 'wild' animals to begin with?
I know some monkeys do as well...its super common in the animal kingdom
What "different perspective". This is just bears being bears. It is not as if the male bear had a moral crisis about whether to kill and eat the cub or not. And it is not as if the male bear felt guilty afterward for killing the cub but surviving another day.
@@Roonlovesfish3874 The Disney perspective.
@@classic1984 😅😁😁😁
It is not just life in the Arctic - it is life everywhere. Nature is brutal and unforgiving.
Its actually because of humans. Due to habitat loss and less prey to hunt, polar bears are now hunting cubs.
2:22 did she lose a bet with that haircut
JR_113 trolls being trolley smh
Joe Dirt
>Scientist: *volunteers to go on camera to try to teach you something for free*
>You: dID sHe lOsE a bEt wiTh tHaT hAiRcUt
Robert Pierssen simp
It's to protect yourself from cynus problem.. it's mandatory for all the women above age of 35 on the sheep to Arctic.
Check their manual pdf.
Please don't go extinct
It will have to be a global effort and not just environmentalists to save them...
+doodelay He was probably so hungry and couldn't find food so he ended up eating it this is so freaking sad :(
LittlePolarBear no he did it cuz it was a easy meal
wow thanks for this comment, you really did something for them to not be extinct
The polar bear population is actually rising. Look it up
🙏🏽R.I.P baby polar bear🙏🏽😢
Carlos Neri-Yanez rip
Taste like chicken
David Griffith u need eat by bear.
@@screwTrump2024 I don't taste like chicken. 😜
It's amazing how some people think that animals have the same emissions ,animals are all about survival .
Emissions lol
Coke time, polar bears! **chugs down and eats can as well for more food**
Mr Male Polar Bear... *YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!*
This is realy sad 😭
I *knew* it was gonna break my heart
Aaliyah Lo A Njoe :(
That’s the nature of the beast. A hungry carnivorous polar bear is gonna eat no matter what. No Coca Cola needed
Huh, no wonder they're an endangered species.
They aren't though lol.
@@MrBrownstainbear they are actually
@@fbi8396 No they aren't.
@Play Station You should actually look it up and report back.
They dont
I dont understand the dislikes, this is the way nature works. Nature is brutal and merciless. Animals live in constant anxiety, they spend most of their lives trying to snag some food or trying not to get eaten. Its just the way it is, nothing wrong or evil about it.
Just because it's natural for an adult bear to kill a cub while the mother watches helplessly doesn't mean humans, with our complex emotions and empathy, have to like watching it happen.
There is something called freedom of expression in the society.. People are entitled to their opinions.. They can like and dislike. Up to them
Eating it’s own cub alive is not something many people like or want to see especially when the female bear wants the cub alive
That's a nice thought very politically correct.
Oh that's good. Understand nature re animals but forget human nature.
hit me right in the feels
Looks like he was just enjoying the bear necessities of life.
Human emotion is both her greatest asset and her greatest threat at the same time.
Grizzlies bears wouldn't have allowed this to happen
They do it too. All bears are cannibals.
@@starcravingmatt I think what he was trying to say is that a female Grizzly would put more effort into protecting their cub.
Average large male four cubs a year i seen on one documentary.
As a human being I feel emotions ...deal with it
This is my fault, this is your fault, do something about it instead of caring about the Kardashian’s. Save the environment
People are making jokes out of this wtf
Its life you cant change it
- MrTwitchyFingers - fish eat other fish🤷🏾♂️ even killer whales eat dolphins it is what it is nature is cold.
This happens despite the environmental conditions. Bears are cannibals.
- MrTwitchyFingers - it’s all your fault, I hope you’re happy.
I didn’t have any food in my refrigerator so went to my neighbor’s house and grabbed one of his plump kids for dinner.
only elephant that know how to protect their family !
This is the most saddest thing ever I seen
My heart was beating and heartbroken in sadness
Please never look up how Hyenas eat their food. Or how some bird species kill their siblings to get all the food from their parent. Or how many species kill their cubs if they have too many.
bro nature's not fun
The poor cub ran as fast as it could. Yes I'm traumatized, especially when it's cannibalism. The big male was just too fast.
Awwww😥
This makes feminists hate men even more
The best part is when walrus stab polar bears and the polar bear suffers and dies of starvation
It's not only the polar bears, other male bears from different species also do that with cubs, specially when there's no food available.
This is life and humans have the audacity to get upset by words
1st amendment is under attack. Right?
U have some issues
ABORTIONS REEEEEEEERR
i see, cannabalizing a small offspring constitutes "life". what's your address? killing is part of life. give me your address. let's engage in some life!
@@derekdu7250 life is to survive. Do you expect the polar bear to resort to vegan diet or finding the nearest charity centre
Wow rare footage but honest and the way of nature.
I just love ruining my thoughts at night 🥴
She had defended her baby the best way that she could possible but at the in she couldn't.
I ain't paying no child support. lol
If she'd received gov assistance and child support best believe the male would of had a bad day lol females now days are extremely $ hungry
I'll just make a few more in case I get hungry..lol..
🤣😂🤣👍
Humans are infinitely greater than any animal to ever exist, indisputably.
Viewer discretion is advised but they will show a bear mauling a seal to death with much closer view lol
Joe rogan brought me here
Haha me too!
same
Does Joe love bears or something I've seen his name on a few bear videos ha
+Mark G yea, he has this wierd thing with bears where he likes and is terrified of them. he talked bout it a little in a podcast
Nate Wrong Ok, same as me I guess.
It's almost like she wasn't even trying. A mama grizzly will fight to the death to protect her cubs
it was all a plot to get rid of that little shit lol
+CloudchaserShaconag Whatever man, for the Polar Bear it's more important for her to survive rather than risk dying and then her cub dying.
+CloudchaserShaconag mama grizzly fucking live on land which aint ICE and easier to find FUCKING food. Its hard for POLARs. Stupid grizzly got nothing on a polar, that mama polar did the right thing.
+CloudchaserShaconag Did you see the difference in size? The male was almost 2x her size... She would be shred to pieces if she tried...
CloudchaserShaconag
Fr. The mother polar bear wasn’t even trying that hard. I’ve seen a grizzly bear Mama half the size of a male grizzly, and she wouldn’t back down for nothing. Oh well though..
Very sad, but it's a life we could never imagine.
I feel so sorry for the mom!
She tried for maybe like 17 seconds. Ain't that heartbroken lol
Awesome catch truly sad to see these magnificent creatures having to eat their own to survive I don't think I've ever seen a video quite like this one it is shocking but it is the sign of the times we don't take care of these magnificent creatures we're going to lose them
he's not eating the cub because he's starving. he's killing it so he can mate with the mother. we have nothing to do with that. All species of bear do this.
@@gregyork577 what is it called when a bear or a mammal does that?
The next time someone asks why humans can’t be as compassionate as animals....
Stupid animal huggers that say they would rather live next to bears or tigers than humans when that animal won’t care if you rescued it, they’ll eat you.
Keith Wilson: I agree. Animals kill for survival. Humans kill for sport. Who has the highest highest ethics - animals.
Christopher Zamora
Animals do some horrible things to each other and other species. From their standpoint, you can call it “sport.” Infanticide, abandonment, killing for dominance, cannibalism, etc. The reasons are really just superficial.
Imagine the mom crying inside as she runs away, RIP lil guy or girl😢
Rest Inside Papa-Bear.
im on the side of the male polar bear eliminating that crumb-snatcher hahaha
POWERFUL Joe Rogan
What would you do for a Klondike bar?
Hello freak bitches
BY THE WAY
#powerful cannibalism
+Carnel G Also always many "not only that" responses by Joe
Lots of animals do this, lions and tigers do this. As do some other smaller mammals. Some birds even lay their eggs in other birds nests and their egg is hatched by the surrogate bird. The intruder chick is bigger than the others and as such the bird feeds the one that is more viable aka the intruder chick. Her own chicks die either from starvation or being pushed out the nest by the bigger chick. It's a crazy world
Ice Bear just continues to get more and more and more traumatizing
How did I get from serial killers docs to serial bears,I'm definitely getting too dark fr my own good😂
Damn nature, you scary!
Not really
Breaks my heart big time.
I went from polar bear vs lions.. now I’m here 😂😂😂
Wow that female bear really tried to defend its cub
I love bears. Intelligent, super strong and great survival instincts. The male knew that if he didn't eat, he might starve and not be able to reproduce. The female knew that if she challenged the male she would probably die due to her inferior size and weight. It was 1 year and 1 cub. She knew she can always try again next season.
Most likely that cub doesn't belong to the male polar bear.
Bears are horrible violent and merciless creatures just like the rest of them. Not surprised in the least
"so and so brought me here"
People are so weak and desperate for affirmation.
And you're insecure...
Ironic
I'm sorry but I love the screams of them just screaming of fear then you hear death
Nature is so beautiful.
That's heart wrenching!
Sad but wild animals eat each other all the time in the wild can’t act surprised
A M Humans consume them too and not just the adult wild animals. There are dishes that specifically require the slaughter of infant animals. Just sayin’.
Thats crazy, she even knew to glance at the humans to see if they'll help...
I undersrand polar bears gotta eat not much out there
Mother bear: Sorry kiddo, but you're toast. Imma head out.
I don't know what I was thinking was gonna happen
Makes me smile
Knowing the big guy didn’t go hungry
oh look, edgy contrarian. what profound insightful comment pennywise, the edgy contrarian, can bring!
@@derekdu7250 Do you merely mean to leave a witty response asserting your intelligence or do you dare compliment my profound observation and positively twisted since of "a positive outcome"?
weirdo
Ironic how the survival actions of one bear just took the species one step closer to extinction
So, it goes to show how species, other than us are probably not aware of their precarious state on this earth and also brings forth an important question; Should we protect species from their kind and others, for their own good?
The gentleman was correct, it was very difficult for me to see this
"the only thing left for them to eat is cubs of various ages" -- as a bird casually walks behind the polar bear
I bet a million dollar if you can catch a bird with that body with avg 800 lbs mass.
If that was my cub that male wouldn’t touch my baby without killing me first
Do you have any
Male strength, all you can do is run, doesnt matter if you're human or a bear lol
Dam I was told my clean burning diesel truck was killing the polar bears
Actually fossil fuel burning, including anyone’s diesel truck, is raising the temperature so that the arctic ice is melting at a dangerous rate. This polar bear might have eaten something else, a seal or even walrus, but those animals aren’t around as much, and bears are having to go much farther, including miles of swimming because of the loss of habitats in order to find food. Thus there is no way of knowing when this male ate last, but it is likely that it was a much longer stretch between meals than it used to be and that puts any animal that comes close in mortal danger. So yes, your diesel burning truck is part of what is killing polar bears.
She will probably mate with him next season.
Lmao
Sorry if its a joke but I'm pretty sure she will not mate with a polar bear that will kill her cubs I'm sorry if its a joke everyone she might or not you might be right might be not.
@@blossomrose84 Lions do it all the time. That's the reason male lions kill the female lions' cubs when they invade a pride. So that the female lions can mate with them after.
@@rockingkevinx EXUESE YOU THERE NOT LIONS
@@blossomrose84 Animal expert
Just imagine, that polar bear male was a cub once himself..
The mother was too afraid of sacrificing her life for the cub. The cub was basically her entire life but I can't believe she just watched her one only cub being eaten by the male bear. Ah, animal parenting is almost unreliable.
Aka: she’s smart
“this is just normal day for a polar bear” actually its not it is because they are starving. I am sure the mom is very sad about losing her cub to
well, male eating a cub is normal in all species of bears. You may have a point but it is off on this case
JRE Putting us on..
yee
A easy meal IS a "easy meal" not to be ignored for survival.
Her whole body wants her baby back! She probably gave birth to at least 2 or 3 cubs and has watched them either die or get eaten by a big male polar bear. Those male polar bears are huge. It's tough to compare the size of them by looking at them being filmed off a big ship. The polar bear rivals the Alaska brown bear as the world’s largest land predator. A large male polar bear can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and grow to nearly 10 feet tall, standing on its hind legs; however, a record male shot in 1960 in Alaska weighed 2,210 pounds and stood 12 feet tall. She'll probably have to put up with that same giant polar bear coming after her to mate with her. Polar bears have a tough life. It's amazing they make it to adulthood with how cannibalistic the male polar bear is!
That same male polar bear that eat her cub may even be her cub at one time too.
What the F is a naturalist!?. If such a thing exists then we are all YouTubist here🤨
Can't interfere with nature
There’s a thing called “life expert” 😂
and then they wonder why they are fucking endangered.
theyre endangered because the temperatures rising and theyre losing more and more hunting territory . Being isolated like that made these animals take advantage of a meal whenever possible
+smoothsk8r44 wow youre an idiot . Your God is causing this then fucktard
keep repeating a lie, eventually, people will believe it as a fact
He's just plain and simple stronger
Make mine,A Cub Sandwich.
This was happening before the ice started melting 😂 what are these guys talking about