Huge Polar Bear Preys on Camera Crew | BBC Earth

But on the way back, our snowmobiles attract interest from a large male. Yeah, Jason, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming. This is a big, confident bear. This bear, like every polar bear, is intrinsically curious. He's walked almost a whole kilometre straight towards us just to check us out. All other species of bear mostly eat plants and insects. Polar bears eat mate. And this one has his eye on me. You have to be primed, ready to go, don't you? Yeah, this is getting to a point where it's a little bit dodgy. This male is paying attention to us and to us only, and he's not stopping, he's getting closer and closer. Look how close he is. Right there, so we're going to have to get ready to start the skidoos and get out of here. OK, he's getting to about, what is he? 10 metres, not good. OK, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. Go, go, go, go, go. It's quite a disaster here. This bear is paying us too much attention, we just had to get out of it. Hang on. Not good, but that just shows you the animals that you can't entirely trust. Look at that, unbelievable. He got way too close there. And even starting up the skidoos, something that would normally put a bear off hasn't bothered him at all. Jason's just going to see if he can scare him off. There you go. There's a bear that was thinking about food. And he saw us, and we were on the menu. In April, this male should be hunting on the sea ice. But behind him, there's mostly open water. It's no surprise that he meant business. And he's still there, still watching. That was about as close to a polar bear as I want to get.