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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 1:47:15 GMT -5
There are accounts of polar bears preying on cetaceans like belugas, narwhales, and beak dolphins. However, one account on the Great Bear of Almanac which stands out is the polar bear attacking a bowhead whale. The polar bear was desperately hungry and attacked the whale but refused to let go even though it could not bite through its hide.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 8:57:50 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 28, 2019 9:03:50 GMT -5
There are accounts of polar bears preying on cetaceans like belugas, narwhales, and beak dolphins. However, one account on the Great Bear of Almanac which stands out is the polar bear attacking a bowhead whale. The polar bear was desperately hungry and attacked the whale but refused to let go even though it could not bite through its hide. I vaguely remember this from some years back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 9:29:54 GMT -5
Predation of Belugas and Narwhals by Polar Bears in Nearshore Areas of the Canadian High Arctic ABSTRACT. On 18 August 1988 we found four narwhals and two dead belugas stranded on a low beach at Creswell Bay, Somerset Island. All of the narwhals and two of the belugas had been attacked and partially eaten by polar bears. At Cunningham Inlet, where belugas concentrate in large numbers, we have noted ten strandings over the period 1980-88, without bear predation on these occasions. One bear, hunting from an ice floe in deep water at Cunningham Inlet, killed two sub-adult belugas in July 1985. Belugas seem to exhibit curiosity towards swimming polar bears that might serve to drive bears out of the area and reduce the risk of predation. The potential large summer food resource for bears represented by odontocete whales in the High Arctic Archipelago seems to be underutilized. The timing and location of beluga concentrations are known and dates of probable strandings are somewhat predictable, which might allow us to assess the extent of bear predation on whales in the future. pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-2-99.pdf Polar Bear Predation on Beluga in the Canadian Arctic pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic26-2-162.pdf Credited to Graaah shaggygod.proboards.com/thread/40/beluga-narwhal-whale-predation-polar |
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Post by brobear on Jan 28, 2019 9:58:10 GMT -5
Garry Brown in his book Great Bear Almanac (1993) is citing a story from the 1991 book No Room for Bears by Frank Dufresne. The following is the original Dufresne's account:
Nanook fight anything when hungry," declared Pooshuk, and grinned as another example came to mind. Once while hunting bowhead whales in the crumbling June ice with brass harpoon gun, he and his oomiak crew members had seen a polar bear jump on the back of a surfacing whale, go down with it, and come up again still trying to bite a mouthful of blubber off the forty-ton behemoth.
Dufresne Bonus: Because they had no choice but to hold their compass course, Jim and his seven Eskimos plodded steadily toward the things barring their way to Point Barrow until they'd narrowed the distance enough to make positive identification. "The dark object was not a seal," stated Trader Jim. "It was the carcass of a huge bowhead whale foundered a quarter mile off the beach line. The white creatures were bears. We counted more than a hundred of them tearing chunks of blubber off the whale. Some were lying around on the ice sleeping off their blubber jags; some were walking along the whale's back; some others had eaten a hole into the belly of the whale big enough so they were walking inside and coming out the whale's mouth." Jim shook his head as if to clarify the scene. "It was the damndest sight you ever saw!"
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Post by brobear on Jan 28, 2019 10:00:55 GMT -5
shaggygod.proboards.com/ Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice, where they hunt ice-associated seals. However, they are opportunistic predators and scavengers with a long list of known prey species. Here we report from a small fjord in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, a sighting of an adult male polar bear preying on two white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) on 23 April 2014. This is the first record of this species as polar bear prey. White-beaked dolphins are frequent visitors to Svalbard waters in summer, but have not previously been reported this far north in early spring. We suggest they were trapped in the ice after strong northerly winds the days before, and possibly killed when forced to surface for air at a small opening in the ice. The bear had consumed most parts of one dolphin. When observed he was in the process of covering the mostly intact second dolphin with snow. Such caching behaviour is generally considered untypical of polar bears. During the following ice-free summer and autumn, at least seven different white-beaked dolphin carcasses were observed in or near the same area. We suggest, based on the area and the degree to which these dolphins had decayed, that they were likely from the same pod and also suffered death due to entrapment in the ice in April. At least six different polar bears were seen scavenging on the carcasses.
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Post by brobear on Jan 28, 2019 10:02:22 GMT -5
shaggygod.proboards.com/ On 18 August 1988 we found four narwhals and two dead belugas stranded on a low beach at Creswell Bay, Somerset Island. All of the narwhals and two of the belugas had been attacked and partially eaten by polar bears. At Cunningham Inlet, where belugas concentrate in large numbers, we have noted ten strandings over the period 1980-88, without bear predation on these occasions. One bear, hunting from an ice floe in deep water at Cunningham Inlet, killed two sub-adult belugas in July 1985. Belugas seem to exhibit curiosity towards swimming polar bears that might serve to drive bears out of the area and reduce the risk of predation. The potential large summer food resource for bears represented by odontocete whales in the High Arctic Archipelago seems to be underutilized. The timing and location of beluga concentrations are known and dates of probable strandings are somewhat predictable, which might allow us to assess the extent of bear predation on whales in the future.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 10, 2019 9:31:08 GMT -5
ONE SINGLE POLAR BEAR KILLS AT LEAST 13 BELUGA WHALES BY BLOWS TO THE HEAD.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 7, 2019 18:26:36 GMT -5
White-beaked dolphins trapped in the ice and eaten by polar bears Jon Aars, Magnus Andersen, Agnès Brenière & Samuel Blanc ABSTRACT Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice, where they hunt ice-associated seals. However, they are opportunistic predators and scavengers with a long list of known prey species. Here we report from a small fjord in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, a sighting of an adult male polar bear preying on two white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) on 23 April 2014. This is the first record of this species as polar bear prey. White-beaked dolphins are frequent visitors to Svalbard waters in summer, but have not previously been reported this far north in early spring. We suggest they were trapped in the ice after strong northerly winds the days before, and possibly killed when forced to surface for air at a small opening in the ice. The bear had consumed most parts of one dolphin. When observed he was in the process of covering the mostly intact second dolphin with snow. Such caching behaviour is generally considered untypical of polar bears. During the following ice-free summer and autumn, at least seven different white-beaked dolphin carcasses were observed in or near the same area. We suggest, based on the area and the degree to which these dolphins had decayed, that they were likely from the same pod and also suffered death due to entrapment in the ice in April. At least six different polar bears were seen scavenging on the carcasses.  shaggygod.proboards.com/thread/1187/polar-predation-white-beaked-dolphins |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 23:37:05 GMT -5
I believe cetaceans are one of the toughest animals to kill, and personally it will be harder for a polar bear to kill belugas, narwhales, and even dolphins compared to killing ungulates including bovids of similar weight. This is because cetaceans have literally no neck meaning there is no way to kill them. Just to bring awareness:There are videos on youtube where Australia for Dolphins use to expose the cruel way the dolphins are killed by the Taiji fishermen (a village in Japan). The fisherman will ram stones on their railings on the boats which confuses the dolphins driving them to the shallow waters. And they use a net to trap the dolphins and wait for them to tire out before sending a team to divide the dolphins, the younger ones without scratches will be taken and train to perform dolphin shows and the rest will be killed in a slow painful way: making them drown in their own blood by doing more than just wounding their blow hole. I feel sorry for the dolphins and will never watch a dolphin show again  . I hope Australia for dolphins continue to expose what these fishermen are doing and their cruel way of making money and this hunting will come to an end. Do not watch dolphin shows in Japan. They inject the fish used to feed the dolphins with dugs as a form of medication - dolphins being social animals get depress when they are away from family members  . |
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Post by brobear on Mar 12, 2019 4:42:05 GMT -5
The cold-hearted cruelty of humanity never ceases to appall me. I am all for the usage of torpedoes on those fishing boats.
The biggest problem for a polar bear killing belugas or narwhales is their habitat. The bear never discovers a whale plodding around on the ice. It's one thing to pull a seal out of the water; something very different pulling a whale onto shore.
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 20, 2019 20:52:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2019 0:36:29 GMT -5
HERE WE HAVE TWO WITNESSES THAT SAW POLAR BEARS STALK AND KILL 2 SUBADULT BELUGA WHALES. HOW MUCH DO YOU GUYS THINK SUBADULT BELUGA WHALES WEIGHT?  |
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Post by King Kodiak on May 4, 2019 19:39:15 GMT -5
I DID NOT EXPECT TO FIND THIS. VELOX THE POLAR BEAR, THE SAME BEAR THAT KILLED 2 AFRICAN LIONS, ALSO KILLED A SEA LION IN DENVER PARK. IT ALSO STATED SHE WAS BLIND, SO THAT IS WEIRD.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 21:42:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 9:30:01 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 4, 2019 12:52:29 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 21, 2019 17:10:44 GMT -5
In another forum there was a debate as to the absolute largest animals that tigers and lions have attacked or dragged. They showed a lion dragging (not killing), a full grown giraffe, max 4250 lbs, thats real awesome. And of course they showed that a tiger may be capable of attacking or dragging a gaur, up to 3300 lbs. tigers have attacked larger elephants by the way. but guess what i just found though? The great bear almanac, witness tells how a polar bear attacked a 40 ton whale, and was trying to bite some blubber.
40 tons=80.000 lbs. looks we have a winner for the largest animal ATTACKED ladies and gentleman.
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Post by tom on Jul 21, 2019 17:46:07 GMT -5
Obviously this had to have taken place at sea. I have a hard time picturing a Polar Bear attacking a 40 ton whale while in the water?? How does this work?
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 21, 2019 17:54:04 GMT -5
Obviously this had to have taken place at sea. I have a hard time picturing a Polar Bear attacking a 40 ton whale while in the water?? How does this work?
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