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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
Unless you can provide a citation for this, I am going to call shenanigans. I would put my money on geting revenge on said lion more than said lion begining to systematicaly pray on humans.
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Besides the citation of "The Ghost in the Darkness"?
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.