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Apparently, some polar bears have decided that their fellow polar bears are the other white meat now.

Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.ADVERTISEMENTThe study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 north of Alaska and western Canada, including the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth.

Polar bears may be turning to cannibalism - Yahoo! News

Polar bears do tend to kill other polar bears to establish dominance, get mates, and trim population size - the article says. Like humans, they do not chow down on their victims afterwards. However, this appears to be changing.

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