The organ has concentrations of vitamin A that can be toxic for humans. (Courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.) Warning against eating polar bear liver, from a U.S. Navy survival manual, “The Naval Arctic Operations Handbook,” 1949. The organ has concentrations of vitamin A that can be toxic for humans.
Q. What was Sir Douglas Mawson famous for?
Douglas Mawson
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| Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Geologist, chemistry demonstrator, Antarctic explorer, academic |
| Known for | First ascent of Mount Erebus First team to reach the South Magnetic Pole Sole survivor of Far Eastern Party Australasian Antarctic Expedition Mawson’s Huts Mawson Plateau |
Q. Has anyone died from eating polar bear liver?
Polar bears Ingesting the liver can cause vitamin A poisoning known as acute hypervitaminosis A. This results in vomiting, hair loss, bone damage and even death.
Q. Can bear liver kill you?
Bears and seals have generally high levels of vitamin A in their livers but polar bears have the most of any animal. The entire liver contains enough vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adults! If you spread it out and ate just enough to get your RDA every day, that liver would last you 143 years!
Q. What animal has the strongest liver?
Biggest liver: Basking Shark.
Q. Is it safe to eat polar bear meat?
Although polar bear meat is considered delicious it is never eaten raw like other meats because it carries many parasites…. Trichinosis is an infection caused by roundworms, found in raw or under cooked polar bear meat. To prevent Trichinosis, make sure polar bear meat is well cooked.
Q. What animal has the biggest feet?
Two-toed ostriches Perhaps because ostrich feet are so large and powerful, they invite comparisons to the feet of extinct meat-eating dinosaurs that lived millions of year ago.
Q. What animal has the biggest brain?
sperm whale
