What happens, if a polarbear eats honey?

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i'm very sorry, if this sounds like a dumb question, but this really makes me think. what happens?
~ the bear simply eats the honey?
~ the bear won't touch the honey?
~ or does the bear get diabetes, because he can't metabolize the fruit-sugar because honey doesn't belong to his natural surrounding? (missing enzymes)

if you mods think, that this question is too dumb, feel free to delete it, but this really interests me.

cheers, viper
 
The bear thinks, "Hmmm, this is nice, whatever it is." and then runs away because the bees are stinging it.

Either that or it will struggle to get the lid off. No opposable thumbs, you see.
 
viperpilot
~ or does the bear get diabetes, because he can't metabolize the fruit-sugar because honey doesn't belong to his natural surrounding? (missing enzymes)
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Last I checked, you don't "get" diabetes from eating sweet things. In any case, honey is high in fructose rather than the glucose associated with diabetic metabolisms.


Fun facts. Polar bears' fur is transparent, not white. All polar bears are left-handed.
 
Perhaps the bear would try it, but, not being adapted to its taste, may even find it revolting to eat, and leave it alone. So, the bear may give it a chance. Otherwise, the sight of honey is very unfamiliar to polar bears, so it is more likely that the bear will leave it alone.

daan
The bear thinks, "Hmmm, this is nice, whatever it is."
and then runs away because the bees are stinging it.

Either that or it will struggle to get the lid off. No opposable thumbs, you see.
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daan
Which makes it even harder for them to open jars.
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Sigh... Is this going to be in the Comedy Corner soon?
 
Why isn't the bear looking for pik-e-nick baskets?
 
viperpilot
i'm very sorry, if this sounds like a dumb question, but this really makes me think. what happens?
~ the bear simply eats the honey?
~ the bear won't touch the honey?
~ or does the bear get diabetes, because he can't metabolize the fruit-sugar because honey doesn't belong to his natural surrounding? (missing enzymes)

if you mods think, that this question is too dumb, feel free to delete it, but this really interests me.

cheers, viper
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There is only one way to find out, we should take up a collection to send you to the pole w/ a spoon and a jar of honey. Just remember, the Polar Bears are more afraid you, then you are of it. (I think that's what they told us in school about wild animals) lol
 
GrumpEone
There is only one way to find out, we should take up a collection to send you to the pole w/ a spoon and a jar of honey. Just remember, the Polar Bears are more afraid you, then you are of it.
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And if it does chase you, then the best thing to do is to take your clothes off as you run away. The bear will stop to sniff your clothes, giving you a chance to escape.

The only slight drawback to that plan is that you'll then freeze to death.
 
daan
And if it does chase you, then the best thing to do is to take your clothes off as you run away. The bear will stop to sniff your clothes, giving you a chance to escape.

The only slight drawback to that plan is that you'll then freeze to death.
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No, the best thing is to shoot it in the face, credit due to JC for that one.
 
Famine
They live in snow.
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What about ones in Zoos?

Wouldn't it be like the glass-pane thing (given their fur is transparent, but not 100%), where the more layers of glass there are, the less you can see through them and the more the overall color is visible? (With glass, usually a slight greenish color from what I've noticed...a polar bears, white?)
 
As much as I just want to give daan all the crap in the world for making not one legitimate on-topic post in this thread, this is plain and simple the strangest question yet asked in this forum, and I don't know how the original poster could've expected anything less.

The funny thing is that the original poster gives us three options, as if it HAS to be one of them, and he asks the question as if one of us will unequivocally know the answer.
 
Bear = Omnivore = Eats honey, eats spoon, and takes your hand with it.

I've never seen a wild animal in the zoo turn away a sweet. The smell alone tells the animal that it's packed full of calories and it's good to eat.

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Oh, BTW... thanks, daan... you've made my day. :lol:
 
M5Power
As much as I just want to give daan all the crap in the world for making not one legitimate on-topic post in this thread,
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My first answer was on topic. Sort of.
 
Year.Zero
What about ones in Zoos?

Wouldn't it be like the glass-pane thing (given their fur is transparent, but not 100%), where the more layers of glass there are, the less you can see through them and the more the overall color is visible? (With glass, usually a slight greenish color from what I've noticed...a polar bears, white?)
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What colour is powdered glass... white.

Also the reason glass appears green is because of impurities. 'pure' glass is expensive but you can see through loads of layers of it quite easily, it will also appear far less green. My guess is the 'transparent' fur of polar bears isn't very transparent perhaps a few strands by themselves appear transparent but lump loads them together and they appear white.
 
M5Power
The funny thing is that the original poster gives us three options, as if it HAS to be one of them, and he asks the question as if one of us will unequivocally know the answer.
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no, i don't know the answer, the three options in my first post, are just the thoughts/possibilities i came up with. these are no answers!

viper
 
niky
Bear = Omnivore = Eats honey, eats spoon, and takes your hand with it.

I've never seen a wild animal in the zoo turn away a sweet. The smell alone tells the animal that it's packed full of calories and it's good to eat.
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That's the answer.

Honey = Sweet = Calories = Mmmmmmmmmm
 
Probably the same thing that happens anytime a wild animal happens upon human food. They eat it and go on. If they live near a highly populated area then they may eat more and more and have a long-term effect, but as we have seen with bears in warmer zones, they just eat and eat and eat and basically become reliant on the human population's wastefulness to provide them even more food.

And considering that polar bears have been spotted in or around urban areas in Canada and Russia (Alaska too?) I am willing to bet that one has managed to get its hands/paws on some honey at some point. If it did anything extremely harmful we would have heard about it as environmentalists would have pushed to ban honey in northern regions to save the polar bears.
 
Stevisiov90
What colour is powdered glass... white.

Also the reason glass appears green is because of impurities. 'pure' glass is expensive but you can see through loads of layers of it quite easily, it will also appear far less green. My guess is the 'transparent' fur of polar bears isn't very transparent perhaps a few strands by themselves appear transparent but lump loads them together and they appear white.
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The individual hairs in their top coat of fur is hollow, causing it to appear white, but the hairs in both their top coat and undercoat are transparent... and their skin is black.
 

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