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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

because the stakes, they are high?

I also heard it's because a typical polar bear has never encountered anything that moves that isn't food.

So they don't have any mental category for "moving things on the ice I should flee from" or even "moving things on the ice that isn't totally delicious".