The Daily Mail gives all kinds of accolades to a Polar Bear that destroyed expensive camera equipment

Wildlife documentary-makers are going to increasingly cunning means to sneak into the secret world of their subjects but don’t think for a second that the animals are fooled, as these images prove.

Award-winning director John Downer had disguised one of his remote-controlled spy cameras as a large snowball to capture the journey of a polar bear mother and her cub crossing the sea ice in Svalbard, Norway, in search of seals.

But – in a documentary Dowler says captures the bears’ ‘astonishing intelligence’ – this adult male wasn’t having the wool pulled over his eyes.

Next time I see a surveillance camera I will smash it apart. The owners will see that I am merely exhibiting my astonishing intelligence. Or maybe they will think that their surveillance camera design is sub-optimal because some dumb human was able to break it?

The photos in the Daily Mail are humorous, to say the least. This is what they call sneaky?

At least the incident will give bears some more publicity, but as far as I can tell that fat white duck-looking thing with propellers had it coming. Good thing penguins were not around. They really would have torn it up.