Besides the citation of "The Ghost in the Darkness"?:DL

I'm not going to go to too much trouble to research this but wiki indicates a unique tendency amongst lions to become man-eaters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eater

Whether or not polar bears have the same tendency I cannot say. A couple sites I checked out were conservationist sites, which put the average death toll at 2 humans per year or so due to polar bear attacks.
Official statistics cite around 30 bear attacks per year but do not name individual species. The case is hard to compare no matter what methods are used because polar bears live in very sparsely populated areas most of the time.
Polar bears are very territorial and solitary predators, which might make them react violently to intrusive humans, but whether or not they could become compulsive man-eaters is something I do not know.

Lions developing a 'taste' for humans is not news and is quite true.

Mankinds encroachment onto their territoys, and reducing the amount of avaialble game worsens the situation. Sometimes the big cats resort to this out of necessity.

I don't think polar bears need to acquire the taste of humans. They are one of the few animals that look at humans as food right from the start...

No wonder you are not allowed to travel by foot on Svalbard without a rifle and some one who knows how to shoot.

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The sign says, "valid for the whole of Svalbard"

Besides, what does it matter if it has a taste for humans when it is in a zoo.
How would you treat it any different to other zoo bears?
Responsible zoo handlers don't give the bears any chances to be violent.

Call it what you want, I just am using my God given gray matter on the subject. Thinkers do not need to reference a quick snipet they find on the net. I am sure that your keyboard is quite capable of finding oh, lets say Man-eaters. Yes, that would be a good start. I am sure you will find a recent incident of an African Lion which became a man eater and systematically stalked Africans right in their own huts. It has nothing to do with revenge at all.

These polar bears need to be put down ASAP before they stalk Africans in their own huts.

Bears gotta eat too. :DL

Of course that cow would'a gave them all the runs for a few days. :har:

Not at all, I originally stated that if they ate this stupid women it was a possibilty that that would be their fate. Not that it should be. The possibilty of these bears seeing their care takers as being food is a possibilty.

This statement is approved by the Department of Redundancy Department:up:

I would guess that the bears already see their caretakers as food. Most zoos go for a hands-off approach with large carnivores.

'The possibility of 'x' is a possibility' is true for all x btw. ;)

Having hunted most of my life I have spent a lot of time in the forests and woods. Bears do not see humans as a food source. A threat source, yes! We could literally get within sight and observe bears foraging for food and when they detected us, they boogied. They did not go "Hmmm,I think I will eat those hunters for dinner instead of these berries." Once an animal get the taste of flesh whether it be human or other, they then get patterned for it. This how cubs become saavy for salmon. They are taught by their mothers and then they are patterned for it. Another example is when I lived in Florida. I raised dogs (Rotties). One day our goat got its head stuck through a wire fence and could not retreat. Two 10 month old pups attacked the goat due to its braying I guess. Since that time these two dogs would try to get at the goats no matter what. None of the other dogs had this problem except these two who had tasted the goats blood. Since then the goats became fair game. Animals get patterned by blood.