First Recorded Video of a Polar Bear Hunting an Adult Caribou

Video by Mateusz Gruszka. This is the first documented evidence that polar bears can successfully prey on adult caribou. Researchers witnessed the predation event in August 2020. The video was published in an open-access paper licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The original paper “Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer“ is online here: