Hi,
Well, you loose the bet. The Tiger will hunt humans, meaning: they go
out of their way to find, kill and eat humans. There are scattered and
periodic reports of Polar Bears attacking humans, but it is normally
another cause which brings this about, such as an invasion of
territory (the human is around during mating season or salmon runs),
the bear is attracted by other food stuffs or something like a pet
dog. The bear has cubs and is protecting them.
Sabre-Tooth Tigers and Polar Bears
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/Sabretooth.html
"However, the centuries passed and the climate began to change.
Winters became longer and the great ice-sheets advanced towards the
valley. There was snow on the hills all year round and the streams
became cold and muddy. The sabre-tooth tiger retreated south and the
tribe was increasingly attacked by polar bears. The tribe coped with
these changes of course, because they were ingenious and persevering,
but the ancient techniques were still taught to the children of the
tribe. A pool was created so that they could learn how to catch fish
in clear water, and a stuffed tiger’s head was used to teach them the
technique of killing it with one spear-thrust. "
CFZ Newsfile
http://cfzarchive.tripod.com/cnews/attak18d.htm
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Polar bear attacks tourist camp
OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - Authorities on Norway's Arctic islands of
Spitzbergen searched for a polar bear shot after it attacked a dog
belonging to a group of campers.
The bear attacked the dog at a camp in the Billefjord area near the
mining settlement of Pyramiden, a spokesman for the governor's office
said . None of the seven tourists in the camp were injured when the
bear struck at around 3 a.m. The fate of the dog was unknown.
‘They shot at the polar bear and may have hit it in the neck. We are
searching for it now,’ the spokesman said.
Tourists travelling to Spitzbergen are warned of the dangers of polar
bears and advised to carry arms when venturing outside populated
areas. In 1995, two people were killed by a bear and last Oct a dog
was attacked. Spitzbergen and the Barents Sea area has around 4,000
polar bears, one of the highest population densities of the animals
since a ban on hunting was introduced in 1973.
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With a population of 4000 polar bears for two decades, and only three
attacks in that time, you can't really say these creatures are out
there hunting humans. They won't be pushed around or back off, and
they might even start the fight, but this is a far cry from "hunting"
them.
The tiger however is a completely different story, you don't even have
to look hard to find reports of them in the last five years.
TIGER ATTACKS MAN ON KHABAROVSK TERRITORY
http://english.pravda.ru/region/2002/07/10/32190.html
Tiger Attacks in Bangladesh
http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/cnissues/cn11-12.htm
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Tigers killed five woodcutters and attacked more than a dozen others
in the first week of July in the Sundarbans mangrove forests,
according to a Reuters report quoting the forest service.
The report in the Lausanne newspaper 24 HEURES of 11 July said that
about 50 people had been killed by tigers between January and May this
year.
It also said that a 1982 law banning hunting of tigers and other
endangered species had not been respected. The report claimed that the
growth of poaching had made the tigers "too aggressive".
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Tiger Attacks Around Chitwan National Park
http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/cnissues/cn11-13.htm
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Sixteen people have been killed and at least partly eaten by tigers in
and around the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal since October
1980, reports Charles MacDougal. The last occurrence was in May 1988.
This year's grass cutting season passed off without deaths although
there was one, not too serious mauling. Large numbers of people enter
the park each year to collect thatch grass and are then vulnerable to
tigers, with several people killed in past years.
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Tiger attacks woman at Idaho zoo fund-raiser
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/12/tiger.attack.ap/
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August 12, 2000
Web posted at: 12:13 PM EDT (1613 GMT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A woman attending a fund-raiser for Zoo Boise was
mauled by a tiger that slipped through a cage door, and then wounded
by a bullet fired to subdue the animal, authorities said.
Siberian tiger attacks scientist
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/attacks/siberia.html
A scientist is in a critical condition after being attacked by a rare
Siberian tiger in the woods of the Russian Far East.
Sergei Sokolov lost consciousness from loss of blood after the attack
near the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
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Well, you get the idea. There are litterally hundreds of tiger attacks
around the world every year. They are beautiful creatures, but they
look at you as food. Polar bears see you as "in the way".
Thanks,
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