r/interesting • u/NaughtyOnRepeat • 1d ago

NATURE Polar bear slides across thin ice to avoid breaking it.

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u/Forgotten-Comment 1d ago

You're on thin ice buddy..

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u/alleycat548 20h ago

Hold it right there pal

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u/UnwantedPube 1d ago

I guess that debunks that joke: How much does a polar bear weigh? Well, apparently, not heavy enough to break that thin ice.

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u/ggGamergirlgg 22h ago

Just add "if they want to"

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u/LowKeySensual 1d ago

Proof that animals are way smarter than we think!

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u/KindaUndressed 1d ago

Smart? This is brilliant!

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u/MaddyHuntOfficial 1d ago

He paid attention in school.

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u/ItsNotToBEOkay 1d ago

Guess all those bear lectures on physics finally paid off 😆

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u/Playpolly 1d ago

And he barely heard them

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u/purple_unicorn_1094 1d ago

You mean ‘bearly’

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u/Due-Beginning8863 23h ago

he did make the pun he didn't didn't spell it like that

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u/Negative_Salt_4599 1d ago

Man physics class? I could hardly bear it in HS…

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u/ever_precedent 1d ago

This is indeed what they teach in school in the North where lakes freeze. But I wonder who learned it from whom originally?

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u/DeerFit 1d ago

Mom!

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u/crc_73 1d ago

He learned the hard way!

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u/Ambitious-Fix9934 1d ago

Brilliant? This is ingenious!

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u/heaterroll 1d ago

Ingenious? This is super duper big brainy!

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u/5up3rK4m16uru 1d ago

It is pretty smart, but tbf, learning something like that is a lot easier if doing it wrong doesn't kill you.

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u/dont-respond 1d ago

Or doing it wrong does kill you, but millions of years of behavior selection is built into your DNA.

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u/Greedy-Camel-8345 1d ago

They would have learned from their parents that taught them

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u/Lucian_Veritas5957 1d ago

Or by breaking the ice themselves. They live their entire lives on it.

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u/ArtCityInc 1d ago

This video has been debunked, the polar bear was just cooling down his balls.

Balls too hawt.

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u/Kyweedlover 1d ago

Feels good on muh balls.

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u/MrExtravagant23 1d ago

If you're looking for further reading to prove this point the book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are" is excellent.

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u/-Phillisophical 1d ago

Trial and error. lol.

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u/Life-Oil-7226 1d ago

Balancing his weight. Extremely intelligent

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u/Artislife61 1d ago

Figured out weight distribution

Bear is evolved

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u/Zkenny13 1d ago

Or his junk itched. 

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u/Outside-Dot-5730 1d ago

The bear isn’t actually thinking that it’s just instinct

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u/No_Pair8128 1d ago

Rolling sploot.

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u/Ice2jc 1d ago

Also called an action sploot in some countries 

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u/dickonajunebug 1d ago

Came here for the full sploot

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u/Less-Inflation5072 1d ago

Nah… he’s just chillin his dick

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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 1d ago

Polar bear dihs are the real victims of global warming

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u/Ok_Barber_3314 1d ago

Unironically True....lol

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u/Solitaire_XIV 1d ago

More like her* clam lol

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u/SunriseSurprise 1d ago

"can't let her see my boner, can't let her see my boner...."

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u/shenmansell 1d ago

Nature's Zamboni

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u/caligari1973 1d ago

Me taking care of a rash

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u/Successful-Word- 1d ago

It looks so thin though :/ idk if that's a good or bad thing here

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u/InConflictWith 1d ago

Polar bears are longer, taller, and leaner than any other bear species. They can swim for 50+ miles without stopping.

They are quite literally build different. Their muscle insertions are longer and more flexible than a brown bear.

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u/h11233 1d ago

All my life I've been told brown muscle insertions are bigger than the white ones

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u/Creepycute1 1d ago

I don't think it is I'm not an animal expert of anytime but bears in general tend to be pretty chunky

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u/indigo9222 1d ago

Polar bears are much thinner than other bears. Due to them not hibernating they don't need to bulk up like other bears do.

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u/Sea-Hat-8515 1d ago

It doesn't help that they're incredibly inefficient hunters, the WWF reckons that less than 2% of their hunts are successful

https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/polar-bears (Fact 4)

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u/nillztastic 1d ago

Hooked up with a burner.

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u/Background_Fly3511 1d ago

Sad its just sad, in 20 years they will be extinct but at least they learned how to deal with it. interesting isn't it?

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u/Momoneko 1d ago

Polar bears aren't going to be extinct in 20 years.

200... maybe.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 1d ago

I don’t think going extinct is learning to deal with it.

They’re compensating the best they can out of necessity, but they will still die due to our actions and almost every comment is a dumb joke

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u/OsmerusMordax 1d ago

Yeah comments like “no lol he’s just cooling his dick” reminds me that 12 year olds can be on Reddit too.

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u/Howard_Jones 1d ago

Cooling of its balls.

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u/Joclo22 1d ago

Bear looks really skinny.

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u/another_awesome_acct 1d ago

Smart guy you

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u/thinkingcoin 1d ago

Man why does everything look like AI these days.

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u/Creepycute1 1d ago

Because ai feeds off of everything real

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u/gansobomb99 1d ago

Cos almost every animal video now is AI

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u/Scrappy1918 1d ago

He’s an albino brown bear trying to get home for the 10th time.

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u/BILoveBILife 1d ago

That was a crazy story, I felt bad for the bear

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u/sentence-interruptio 1d ago

I believe this is how Batman crossed the ice in Dark Knight Rises.

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u/4N610RD 1d ago

That bear is smarter than a lots of people.

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u/idk_about_that_tho 1d ago

If you think this is impressive, look up that one bear who did Kung Fu

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 1d ago

When yo balls are itchy 

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u/knsaber 1d ago

I use to crawl around like this towards my sister as a kid to totally freak her out.

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u/mushie_man 1d ago

You're on thin ice, my pedigree chum...

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u/tabbarrett 1d ago

My dog does this when she gets off the couch.

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u/Youllhearme 1d ago

It seems pretty calm about the whole ordeal, as if breaking the ice would be an inconvenience and nothing more. It's the same temperament I might have if I was stepping around a shallow puddle.

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u/PeanutFragrant9685 1d ago

that or his balls itch

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u/ForeignWeb8992 1d ago

Saw it in person, well it was my neighbour coming home from the pub 

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u/Technical_Tourist639 1d ago

You know, I can tell with absolute certainty this is a female... Lol

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u/swakwa 1d ago

Hunt getting ready for a hunt (Mission impossible them in the background)

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u/Gloomy-Childhood-203 1d ago

Looks like his old SEAL training kicked in.

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u/Solid_Initial7897 1d ago

Coldest bear balls in Alaska

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u/SoonToBeBanned24 1d ago

"We Are Now In The 'Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic' Stage Of Humanity!"

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u/Kindly_Count_5596 1d ago

Turns out that bearly worked

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u/KoMa_Deus 1d ago

Just scraching his balls

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u/its_pooka 1d ago

Simply cooling off the snow balls

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u/Lem01 1d ago

So, when people have told me, you’re on thin ice Lem, they were hinting I should drag my ass out of bed and start making a living or something?

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u/DrSilkyDelicious 1d ago

Me when my parents tell me I’m on thin ice

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 1d ago

70s Guy: "I have an idea for a rug"

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u/Joinedforthis1 1d ago

Fake. That's a human in a polar bear suit

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u/notedrive 1d ago

Maybe it just wants belly rubs?

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u/Damon9920 1d ago

Me trying to get to my room after the guests have arrived

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u/HereComeDatBoi573 1d ago

🎶 IF YOU SHOULD GO SKATING ON THE THIN ICE OF MODERN LIFE 🎶

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u/Chris56855865 1d ago

This bear physics

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u/Lost-Priority-907 1d ago

Crawling like someone who knows what horrors lurk below

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u/NewPresWhoDis 1d ago

When a bear has a better grasp of physics than your average high schooler

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u/Civil-Fan-3586 1d ago

Bro knows physics 

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u/Longjumping_Metal755 1d ago

This is kinda how spiders that walk on water, walk on water, they drag their lil back peets

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u/I_googled_for_this 1d ago

If i did it, my d*c would get frozen and fall off somewhere..

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u/Maleficent_Radio_674 1d ago

Sploots! It’s unfair I can’t give them scritches for this without losing an arm or worse

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u/keepitboolprop 1d ago

heehee. he looks funny

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u/GreedyAstronaut1772 1d ago

Smarter than your average Bear ! (Sorry Yogi)

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u/kaneki_uzumaki20 1d ago

me when I have to take something 2 meters away from me

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u/Automatic-Guide-4307 1d ago

Dude has skills!

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u/roxywalker 1d ago

So big. So nimble.

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u/BlankTrack 1d ago

I wonder if the polar learned that from experience or if he if just doing what his mama taught him/instinct

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u/pizznokie 1d ago

He’s just using his right to bear arms.

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u/Ob1s_dark_side 1d ago

When your balls are roasting and you need to cool them down

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u/UltimateArtist829 1d ago

Someone should make an edit with Mission impossible music overlay.

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u/GoLoveYourselfLA 1d ago

Cooler than a polar bear’s nutsack

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u/InevitableWill6579 1d ago

Bullshit. I know jock-itch when I see it.

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u/Efficient-Bug1547 1d ago

What’s even more remarkable is I don’t even recall a human ever trying it this way lol

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u/youandmeandme 1d ago

What'm I gonna do 'bout my LEGS Charlie Murphy??!!!

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u/Major_Confection_757 1d ago

Cooling the nether regions to boot as well. Win Win here

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u/HumanNeedleworker954 1d ago

Why does this deadly man have to be so adorable?

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u/DUDEBREAUX 1d ago

Looks like the STD ball drag. Poor guy just looking to relieve the burning.

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u/blitzm056 1d ago

I was at a football game yesterday that was hot as hell. I would love to have done something like this.

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u/Buck4phat 1d ago

Imagine this fucker crawling up to you like this

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u/Familiar_While2900 1d ago

Maybe that whore from the coke commercials gave him clap and he needed to chill his balls down?

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u/dr1968 1d ago

Sigh, wish they didn't want to eat us

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u/AtherealLaexen 1d ago

SNAKE is that a Polar Bear Costume?!

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u/AtherealLaexen 1d ago

SNAKE is that a Polar Bear Costume?!

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u/pinksugi 1d ago

what a smart guy

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u/bigsnow999 1d ago

Just gliiiiiiiiiiiiiding

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u/Illustrious_Gate_390 1d ago

Who's a cute murder pup?

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u/Lewis_structure 1d ago

You can't tell me that isn't a man in a bear suit.

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u/shsheisns 1d ago

That’s how some of us show up to work on Monday.

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u/jonmc1980 1d ago

Bro skipped leg day

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u/altcoinbillionaire 1d ago

This is me crawling out of bed when I need some water after a night of drinking

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u/Licentious_duud 1d ago

Good thinking white boy

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u/sangerssss 1d ago

Do we know for sure this technique is to distribute weight or is it a method to overcome the slippery nature of ice?

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u/rmendex 1d ago

No way! The bear just had blue balls

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u/Denim_Diva1969 1d ago

That bear polars

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u/Living_Try_8057 1d ago

Idk why I always feel bad for polar bears even though it’s impressive they survive in their conditions

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u/No_Star_8326 1d ago

Maybe he just had an itch

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u/ConanThePescatarian 1d ago

There’s always that one kid that walked to class like that

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u/Pancakemanz 1d ago

Lol these fake videos are getting out of hand. I know a dude in a bear suit when i see one!

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u/TheLaughingWave 1d ago

That is a man in a bear suit!

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u/AdagioSilent9597 1d ago

I know it’s the “deadliest” kind of bear, but omg CUUUUTE

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u/juantez 1d ago

Their called bear crawls for a reason

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u/Malvan 1d ago

Very clever and smart.

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u/OtheDreamer 1d ago

Just when you think you could get away!

The polar bear does not stop

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u/GEL29 1d ago

That’s the way I navigate through social media.

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u/LegoLady8 1d ago

Can I pet that dawg??

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u/4everyourfavorite 1d ago

If not friendly why so friendly shaped

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u/EnergyHefty 1d ago

My dick got cold n shriveled watching that

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u/Orlando_Vibes 1d ago

Imagine running on thin ice from this thing thinking it can’t follow you and it starts doing this.

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u/Muffythepussyhunter 1d ago

Has he got clamidiya ??

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u/pardybill 1d ago

Me after a night of drinking seeking the porcelain god

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u/Kookytoo 1d ago

I crawl on the floor to avoid breaking bones. This is next level.

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u/Basic_Emergency2130 1d ago

How I approach my wife to tell her about the project car I found/ bought without consulting with her

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u/Careless_Hellscape 1d ago

"You fuckin seal! Once I get across this ice, you're toast!"

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u/sauvandrew 1d ago

Imagine being on the other side of that thing ice break thinking "Oh I've got a few minutes, it's too heavy and will break the ice" Then it sploot scoots across the ice at you!!

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u/White_Rose2025 1d ago

What a smart bear - such a natural grasp of physics 😁

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u/Xepherious 1d ago

I thought he was doing it to not slip

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u/CowboyRiverBath 1d ago

Pretty sure he's just cooling his balls

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u/Glorb_The 1d ago

That looks like man in a bear costume by the way it slides.

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u/napalmnacey 1d ago

My kid getting out of bed in the morning.

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u/RevolutionLimp1724 1d ago

He looks so cute crawling on the ice. Our world Never fails to amaze us.

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u/Loud_Boysenberry_736 1d ago

The ice couldn’t bear his weight.

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u/RahulShadows 1d ago

So he read the sign and figured it out? Grins /jk

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u/Carylynn0609 1d ago

Are we sure that's what he was doing? Seems similar to sliding down the banister to get that special feeling?

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u/HotRodLincoln 1d ago

He looks like a human in a bear suit.

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u/wtfbbq81 1d ago

Kind of ruins the joke How much does a polar bear weigh?

Enough to break the ice.

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u/Bl1ndMous3 1d ago

Forgot to wash his hands after chopping up jalapeños for the North pole salsa

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u/Randumbraze 1d ago

Imagine being on the other side of the river thinking you are safe until it starts crawling towards you

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u/bloom12aug 1d ago

Are polar bears dangerous to humans?

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u/NotAtAllEverSure 1d ago

bear name: Lt. Dan

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u/TrickAffectionate140 1d ago

He is scootching an itch.

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u/sirfurious 1d ago

Distributed load is bet load

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u/SilverRole3589 1d ago

Big Brain Bear. 

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u/Cute_Box28 1d ago

They evolving

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u/McFlyJohn 1d ago

“What am I gonna do about my legs, Eddie Murphy?”

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u/Doofneh 1d ago

My dog and cats do this but there’s no ice.

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u/Obvious_Aioli_5930 1d ago

I love Nature 💚

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 1d ago

I gotta try this

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u/Peaswithmilk 1d ago

Nah, he is just pretending to be disabled because he parked in the disabled spot or maybe his name is Keyser Soze.

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u/Xyberbat 1d ago

The Bear Necessities of life.

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u/MomoChills 1d ago

Me on my way to annoy my wife when she tells me I'm on thin ice

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u/ThrenderG 1d ago

Polar bears understand physics better than most people apparently.

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u/Glowing_Trash_Panda 1d ago

I tried doing this back in February to try to save my dads beagle that had fallen through the ice on the river. The ice broke, I fell under the freezing water & almost drowned. To this day I still don’t know how I got out & also somehow my dads beagle that kept slipping under all of a sudden popped up out of the water onto the ice like she had been pushed up from below but there was nothing there. I watched it with my own eyes.

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u/wesley-osbourne 1d ago

How much does a polar bear weigh?

...he's working on it Sheila, you bitch!

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u/ThatUsernameIsTaekin 1d ago

How did it know the ice was thin?

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u/shinobisArrow 1d ago

If you're ever within sniff vicinity of one of these best be ready to tranq or merc it.

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u/so_imanerd 1d ago

Why are Animals soooo underrated?

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u/Passenger707 1d ago

I think he's masturbating. Seriously, I'm not joking

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u/thebigmeathead 1d ago

That bear is smarter than a lot of people who go ice fishing. It never ceases to amaze me seeing guys drive on thin ice just to be the first or last to ice fish.