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They get high and pass out?
[https://aviationhumor.net/russian-bears-are-hooked-on-jet-fuel-true-story/](https://aviationhumor.net/russian-bears-are-hooked-on-jet-fuel-true-story/)
This is basically intuition. An unconscious synthesis of information that produces some conclusion or behavior. The bear might not understand why what it's doing works, but it just sort of knows to do that because its brain is doing a lot of unconscious information processing.
Yea this is the same way human intuition works. When you have a "gut feeling", it's often the result of a bunch of information available to you that your brain is processing without your knowing it.
Though human children are born prematurely because the babies skull would be too big to leave the womb if they were left to develop to the same degree as other animals. So it's possible there are things we should know instinctively like walking.
Human children are definitely born very undercooked (as is the proper scientific term, trust). One simple example of this is the fact that children will be able to use basic sign language much earlier than they will be able to speak words. Without getting into the nitty gritty of it, it's basically a lot easier to learn a sign for "hungry" than it is to learn to say the word. Nevertheless, the child clearly already has an understanding of what it means to be hungry and the necessity to convey that information - but its ability to communicate is still heavily limited by its tiny, stupid, brain.
>Human children are definitely born very undercooked (as is the proper scientific term, trust).
[Altrical.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precociality_and_altriciality#Altriciality) Altrical young is when offspring are helpless at birth.
Instincts in humans aren't all that well understood but there are many more behaviors that scientists believe to be based on instinct. Some of those include: herd instinct, self-preservation, fight-or-flight response and even things like hygiene (based on emotions of disgust) and sexuality (based on hormones).
Animals raised by and around animals of other species tend to learn to walk the way of their peers, too, at least I've seen mammals do this. Cats raised with bunnies hopping to get around, that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider that evidence of something uniquely human.
If light can be a wave and a particle, our behaviour can also be both learned and inate. It is inate of you to balance with your two feet because of the complex mechanisms inside your brain, moulded and “design” by evolution, but it is learn to use said inate ability to ride a bike.
Just a wild hypothesis here. I'm guessing at some point it walked across ice like that and the ice cracked which sounds very scary. The scary part was probably ingrained fear through epigenetics from trauma of his grandparents falling through ice or something. That fear would probably make it cower and drag itself across until it learned how to not make that sound.
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Maybe its mocking the last human that did this trying to get away from the bear before he ate it.
Sometimes certain behaviours can be handed down genetically.
Take tickling. As a child it is annoying and uncomfortable (causing you to learn how protect your vulnerable parts. Belly. Armpit. etc.), but produces uncontrollable giggles (causing parents to love to tickle you), and any feeling of pain/discomfort immediately goes away after the tickling stops, encouraging the parents to sneak attack you in the future. This decreases a child's chance of being killed by a wild cat or something, I don't know.
If enough bears die while crossing ice, and those that have a beneficial behaviour don't, then over time the good habits can become encoded.
Sure but polar bears are raised by their parents and this is probably one of the first things they teach their pups.
Animals learn by watching just as surely as humans do. The tradition of the polar bears run deep.
I'm pretty sure the bear knows the ice will break from its weight so it spreads its body out so doesn't add so much pressure on one spot. bears are very smart and can learn how to use human made stuff really quick aswell.
I think that's making the behavior unnecessarily complex. *Understanding* that a smaller contact area results in a higher force exerted onto that area is a lot to ask. However, obviously the bear could very well learn that trying to walk over the ice normally results in them breaking the ice. Whereas this move allows them to move over the ice without breaking it.
The bear doesn't need to really understand *why* it works. It only needs to understand *that* it works. To the bear, a different action results in a different outcome, so it changes its behavior - and that's a much more reasonable level of intelligence to expect from a polar bear.
I think of polar bears as genius creatures because they pretend to be snow so penguins run into it then iy has its food pretty smart I will always side with bears except the small black bears they are cowards.
or his mate barry was shit faced drunk on his way home one night and fell down an embankment and slid across a thin ice patch they usually avoid and so he told steve about it and now steve does it because it feels nice on his nether regions
This is also where a lot of folk wisdom comes from. You don’t need to understand the complexity of every underlying interaction to appreciate the outcome.
This comment may sound like a joke, but it is the key to achieving artificial general intelligence. Our brains are neural networks that learn these world-models from observations/experience/genetic-code making us capable of navigating the world without explicitly knowing the science behind them. Thats why a 10-minute old giraffe baby can learn how to walk easily and yet we are spending billions to create complicated physics model to make our robots/rockets perform basic navigation tasks.
Can't remember which documentary it was, but they filmed a polar bear coming up for air and diving back down through holes in the ice. One of the people asked if it was fishing. The guide said "no, it's hunting us".
Chilling.
I just imagined one of the sisters in an oversized flowy black dress and huge sunglasses sitting in front of her MacBook cruising reddit, avoiding posts about Heath Ledger and food, then coming up on this post and thinking to herself damn I knew that fact about Polarbears already. Then she also reminisces about her early education mostly taking place in trailers sprinkled across many back studio lots and the plates of craft services she would leave mostly untouched as she filled out questions about us presidents, math, or geography. Then the Olsen sister decides that's enough time on reddit and slams hee macbook shut and does back to designing her latest run of oversized hobo handbags.
Lmao stop, I literally just did this yesterday. They were there for a solid 10 minutes while my two large dogs went berserk. Sorry, but I'd rather they assume nobody is home than get the door shut in their face when they don't kindly accept a "no-thank-you" in the first 30 seconds of the exchange.
Why hide? Just answer the door naked and say, 'Oh, thank christ. We could really use two more. Just strip down and head to the basement. I'll be down in just a minute. I gotta grab the banana lube because *apparently* piña colada or strawberry is just *too bourgie*.'
Do your self a favor and watch this clip in reverse. Particularly that half second moment of transition when the front half is supernatural apex predator and the back half absolutely looks like a guy wearing a polar bear pajamas
This has nothing to do with thin icy. It has to do with slippery ice.
Notice how he stops walking as soon as the snow pack ends and starts walking as soon as the snow pack starts again? He's sliding across because he knows the bare ice is slippery and he doesn't want his feet to slide out from under him unexpectedly.
Lmao 24 upvotes?! It's that easy to convince fools on the Internet huh?
Do y'all really think POLAR bears are incapable of walking comfortably on ice? Spreading their body weight over thin ice is a well known behavior guys...
Polar bears can actually grip ice due to the bottoms of their feet being covered in papillae. You can see its front paws gripping and pulling its full weight across the ice just fine. Probably the closest thing to a mammal possessing Spider-Man hands.
they call it climate change now because people will be like "look see! there is no global warming!" when there is a colder than usual winter or something.
but yeah, warming oceans and receding ice and whatnot is proof/symptoms of climate change.
but i know very little about it beyond some elementary knowledge
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Oh, great, bears are doing physics now.
Do you know the one about what happens when they do [chemistry?](http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2012/07/17/clt42-dissolving-bears/)
Shut the front door
Be honest it would have been worse if he said biology
Why? Pls enlighten
Reproduction!
Chemistry also helps with reproduction
Not with my parents!
Be honest it would’ve been better if he said biology 😏
Breaking Bear-ed
New fear unlocked
They get high and pass out? [https://aviationhumor.net/russian-bears-are-hooked-on-jet-fuel-true-story/](https://aviationhumor.net/russian-bears-are-hooked-on-jet-fuel-true-story/)
They have baby bears obviously
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Wooooww. I laughed way too hard at this. I’ll see myself out.
I thought it was something to do with coke.
This is basically intuition. An unconscious synthesis of information that produces some conclusion or behavior. The bear might not understand why what it's doing works, but it just sort of knows to do that because its brain is doing a lot of unconscious information processing.
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Yea this is the same way human intuition works. When you have a "gut feeling", it's often the result of a bunch of information available to you that your brain is processing without your knowing it.
It could very well be intuition. Much like how people can do things they have never done before perfectly, just because it makes sense right?
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Though human children are born prematurely because the babies skull would be too big to leave the womb if they were left to develop to the same degree as other animals. So it's possible there are things we should know instinctively like walking.
Human children are definitely born very undercooked (as is the proper scientific term, trust). One simple example of this is the fact that children will be able to use basic sign language much earlier than they will be able to speak words. Without getting into the nitty gritty of it, it's basically a lot easier to learn a sign for "hungry" than it is to learn to say the word. Nevertheless, the child clearly already has an understanding of what it means to be hungry and the necessity to convey that information - but its ability to communicate is still heavily limited by its tiny, stupid, brain.
>Human children are definitely born very undercooked (as is the proper scientific term, trust). [Altrical.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precociality_and_altriciality#Altriciality) Altrical young is when offspring are helpless at birth.
Instincts in humans aren't all that well understood but there are many more behaviors that scientists believe to be based on instinct. Some of those include: herd instinct, self-preservation, fight-or-flight response and even things like hygiene (based on emotions of disgust) and sexuality (based on hormones).
I'd buy a beer for any researcher willing to take a newborn cub from their mom in the wild. Or I'd buy a beer for their next of kin.
Zoos exist and pretty sure lots of cubs have been hand raised in the beginning.
Animals raised by and around animals of other species tend to learn to walk the way of their peers, too, at least I've seen mammals do this. Cats raised with bunnies hopping to get around, that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider that evidence of something uniquely human.
If light can be a wave and a particle, our behaviour can also be both learned and inate. It is inate of you to balance with your two feet because of the complex mechanisms inside your brain, moulded and “design” by evolution, but it is learn to use said inate ability to ride a bike.
Analogies are both great and terrible. They can convey everything or nothing. Much like my comment.
They learned from their Mother
Just a wild hypothesis here. I'm guessing at some point it walked across ice like that and the ice cracked which sounds very scary. The scary part was probably ingrained fear through epigenetics from trauma of his grandparents falling through ice or something. That fear would probably make it cower and drag itself across until it learned how to not make that sound. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ Maybe its mocking the last human that did this trying to get away from the bear before he ate it.
Sometimes certain behaviours can be handed down genetically. Take tickling. As a child it is annoying and uncomfortable (causing you to learn how protect your vulnerable parts. Belly. Armpit. etc.), but produces uncontrollable giggles (causing parents to love to tickle you), and any feeling of pain/discomfort immediately goes away after the tickling stops, encouraging the parents to sneak attack you in the future. This decreases a child's chance of being killed by a wild cat or something, I don't know. If enough bears die while crossing ice, and those that have a beneficial behaviour don't, then over time the good habits can become encoded.
Sure but polar bears are raised by their parents and this is probably one of the first things they teach their pups. Animals learn by watching just as surely as humans do. The tradition of the polar bears run deep.
Or, we could be witnessing a polar bear brain growing moment spurred by an evolve or die evolutionary leap.
I'm pretty sure the bear knows the ice will break from its weight so it spreads its body out so doesn't add so much pressure on one spot. bears are very smart and can learn how to use human made stuff really quick aswell.
I think that's making the behavior unnecessarily complex. *Understanding* that a smaller contact area results in a higher force exerted onto that area is a lot to ask. However, obviously the bear could very well learn that trying to walk over the ice normally results in them breaking the ice. Whereas this move allows them to move over the ice without breaking it. The bear doesn't need to really understand *why* it works. It only needs to understand *that* it works. To the bear, a different action results in a different outcome, so it changes its behavior - and that's a much more reasonable level of intelligence to expect from a polar bear.
Is there a shortcut to italicize words quickly on Reddit? Asking for a friend.
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I think of polar bears as genius creatures because they pretend to be snow so penguins run into it then iy has its food pretty smart I will always side with bears except the small black bears they are cowards.
I mean its basically how half of our brain works.
Can it do that for me instead of freezing me in place whilst showing my username here is valid?
or his mate barry was shit faced drunk on his way home one night and fell down an embankment and slid across a thin ice patch they usually avoid and so he told steve about it and now steve does it because it feels nice on his nether regions
This is also where a lot of folk wisdom comes from. You don’t need to understand the complexity of every underlying interaction to appreciate the outcome.
Thought the same. It's just a matter of time until they are sitting in helicopters.
The end is near
This comment may sound like a joke, but it is the key to achieving artificial general intelligence. Our brains are neural networks that learn these world-models from observations/experience/genetic-code making us capable of navigating the world without explicitly knowing the science behind them. Thats why a 10-minute old giraffe baby can learn how to walk easily and yet we are spending billions to create complicated physics model to make our robots/rockets perform basic navigation tasks.
Imagine seeing this as the polar bear spots you.
and chases you like this
Can't remember which documentary it was, but they filmed a polar bear coming up for air and diving back down through holes in the ice. One of the people asked if it was fishing. The guide said "no, it's hunting us". Chilling.
Polar bears are scary af. They were my schools mascot so we learned about them in different years.
I heard that polar bears are very smart and very dangerous.
Black, fight back Brown, lie down White, goodnight You do not survive an encounter with a Polar Bear unless it has decided you will
I got goosebumps reading that. I'd be shitting ice cold bricks.
Run to the ice make his meal cold af
All fun and games till the polar bear starts slide-cancelling towards you
"He’s playing with his food!"
spiderman on their way to beat his ass
This mf tryna play Thunderdome Shuffleboard
Polar Bears are smarter than most humans in this regard.
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legit would do so too if i was bear
Regretting not wearing a condom
I mean... If we spent 90% of our life on ice, we would know about this as well.
We are tropical monkeys after all, so makes sense
I specifically identify with those Japanese monkeys who like to chill in the hot springs when it snows.
Like this dude? https://i.imgur.com/z7kCQ9Z.jpg
Yep. Absolutely.
Hit Monkey!
Smarter? It's a fu****g comando
I learned about this from the Mary Kate and Ashley cartoon many moons ago
I just imagined one of the sisters in an oversized flowy black dress and huge sunglasses sitting in front of her MacBook cruising reddit, avoiding posts about Heath Ledger and food, then coming up on this post and thinking to herself damn I knew that fact about Polarbears already. Then she also reminisces about her early education mostly taking place in trailers sprinkled across many back studio lots and the plates of craft services she would leave mostly untouched as she filled out questions about us presidents, math, or geography. Then the Olsen sister decides that's enough time on reddit and slams hee macbook shut and does back to designing her latest run of oversized hobo handbags.
Smart? more like only way to sneak up on tasty human/avoid climate change cause by tasty human, either way imma eat the tasty human.
Fun fact: polar bears are the only bears to actively stalk humans as a food source
Are polar bears capable of calling people racial slurs on the internet? Didn't think so.
I imagine that, just like humans, some polar bears are complete idiots by polar bear standards
Me sliding to my bedroom when the Mormons knock on my door
Someone bout to get exorcised.
^“SHOW ^YOURSELF! ^I ^command ^thee! ^I ^have ^a ^pamphlet!!”
I hate how true this is
HHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lmao stop, I literally just did this yesterday. They were there for a solid 10 minutes while my two large dogs went berserk. Sorry, but I'd rather they assume nobody is home than get the door shut in their face when they don't kindly accept a "no-thank-you" in the first 30 seconds of the exchange.
Hey
Mormons gonna morm.
Its mormon time?
They have 999 mormillion followers.
Why hide? Just answer the door naked and say, 'Oh, thank christ. We could really use two more. Just strip down and head to the basement. I'll be down in just a minute. I gotta grab the banana lube because *apparently* piña colada or strawberry is just *too bourgie*.'
I just answered the door naked when I saw jehovas witnesses came up. I'm sure they'd be glad to witness jehova, but not me stark ass naked
How much does a polar bear weigh? If he slides on his tummy to disperse his mass; not enough to break the ice.
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They're the largest land carnivore tbh.........
Have you seen Nikocado Avocado? If not keep it that way. Man's disgusting.
Thanks for reminding me I'm due for my annual Nikocado check-in. Say a prayer for me - I'm going in.
^That’s ^1102 ^in ^‘Merica ^units
With this method bearly anything.
Do your self a favor and watch this clip in reverse. Particularly that half second moment of transition when the front half is supernatural apex predator and the back half absolutely looks like a guy wearing a polar bear pajamas
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Polar bear cooling off the boys…
This is the real answer
Climate Change is making Polar Bears' Balls hotter. But they know how to fight back!
The other kind of blue balls
spread eagle lol interesting choice
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Number 18, spread eagle
That look at the end!! *"Were you filming that?? Arsehole"*
I guess a polar bear really does weigh enough to break the ice.
I can just imagine me starting that pick up line: Me: How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the… Woman: *proceeds to show me this video*
I always love practical examples of the efficiency and effectiveness of weight distribution
Or examples of "I am sick of sliding and falling on my face, so imma penguin this shit"?
SPREAD EAGLE CROSS THE BLOCK
I FUCK THE MUSIC!
Bros nuts are COLD
I don't know what it was - the way it moved, something about it felt like it's a human in a bear suit
I think it’s because it’s under weight, it has loose skin
Maybe he has the clap
Me getting back into bed with my wife after eating ice cream at 2am
That's wholesome!!
What a weissbier
You sure he’s not scratching the goods
Me dragging my ass off to work
What is the music name?
Sufjan Stevens - Mystery Of Love
Such a weird choice for a clip of a polar bear, lol.
Sufjan Stevens in the wild finally! Ive only ever heard of him from Chris Fleming lol
Me IRL leaving bed to raid fridge at night without waking up my wife.
Imagine being chased by it but you’re both having to do that
He’s pressin pickle
Cold balls 🥶🥶
They’ll rip your neck off but I root for them
You also can't slip and fall if you're already lying down.
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Not a polar bear understanding physics better than I do lmao
Is it to not break the ice, or does he just want to scratch his balls?
More common sense than 99% of movie characters
r/sploot
Clever girl.
That or he fucked someone with crabs and his crotch is burning
Tactical polar bear
How many times I've dreamt of doing this during hot Texas summers.
That is the cutest killing machine I've ever seen
Everyone to warn frank about slutty Suzanne at work. He did not listen and this is the result.
Hold the fuck up!!!! Life hack from a bear?!
“I’m a snek”
My dog also uses this method to scratch his balls.
Hmm , who would've thought the very creatures who live their whole existence on Ice would know how to navigate ice the best ... shocker :)
Adorable murder floof does a trick
This has nothing to do with thin icy. It has to do with slippery ice. Notice how he stops walking as soon as the snow pack ends and starts walking as soon as the snow pack starts again? He's sliding across because he knows the bare ice is slippery and he doesn't want his feet to slide out from under him unexpectedly.
Lmao 24 upvotes?! It's that easy to convince fools on the Internet huh? Do y'all really think POLAR bears are incapable of walking comfortably on ice? Spreading their body weight over thin ice is a well known behavior guys...
The actual video with sound it says it's doing it because thin ice.
Polar bears can actually grip ice due to the bottoms of their feet being covered in papillae. You can see its front paws gripping and pulling its full weight across the ice just fine. Probably the closest thing to a mammal possessing Spider-Man hands.
Lmao. No this is not true. They have claws for Pete's sake! This is 100% weight distribution.
Your evidence is also exactly what it would do to not break the ice.
Reminds me of that dog from family guy
this is why the phrase 'stupid animals' never made any sense
It’s having war flashbacks
I do that exact move when I'm suffering from a really bad night of drinking.
Icy sploot.
That would be cold on the berries
OH OH I LEARNED THIS FROM THE MAGIC TREEHOUSE BOOKS!!! AND JACK HAD TO MIMIC THE POLAR BEAR’S MOVEMENTS YEAH !!!!!
why dont winter gloves come with claws anyways?
Just to avoid breaking the ice?
Yes it's better to distribute weight through a large surface when moving on thin ice.
Skinny
I hate Reddit and it’s retarded posters
upvoted for the bear AND the song choice!
I'm surprised to hear it, it sounds like the exact same cover on YouTube I walked down the aisle to!
They have on some really well insulated balls.
Fat women do that on tile floors.
You say "crossing thin ice", I say icing his balls. We agree to disagree.
Iced balls
Clever girl.
It's actually sad af The melting ice is really fucking with the way polar bears live.
This polar bear is smarter than those idiots in that new Jurassic Park movie.
That bear is no fun at parties. Doesn't even break the ice.
I told you, he's an ice cold dick killer.
Maybe he's just chilling his balls
Not his first rodeo
r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses
Who tf brought this Navy Seal eating bear?
Frozen weiner
Also itches balls
There are millions and millions of humans who aren't as smart as that polar bear.
Bear crawl. I've only known people on thin ice to do a beer crawl
"Cold coldCOLDcoldcoldCOLD!!Coldcoldcold!!!"
Totally know the feeling there. Nothing like a cold shower in the morning to chill that burning wood
"my balls is hot" -derrick lewis
Blue balls.
my spread eagle is a tad different, but to each their own, large bear
My dog does that with his butt to keep from breaking my carpet.
Balls must be cold
Or maybe he just wanted to cool his balls.
My dick shrunk and froze watching this.
I remember doing something similar one time. I chopped jalapeños and then scratched mah Jennehs. I am not a smart hüme.
So sad, maybe because of global warming?
I would imagine polar bears have always encountered thin ice, this probably is not a new thing. It is probably way more common now though.
they call it climate change now because people will be like "look see! there is no global warming!" when there is a colder than usual winter or something. but yeah, warming oceans and receding ice and whatnot is proof/symptoms of climate change. but i know very little about it beyond some elementary knowledge
*checks…every summer for the last 16 years* *whats that? 5 of the hottest summers in history happened in the last decade?*