Bears and lithium batteries

[Seahawk12]

So I was watching a show with Les Stroud on it and during the show he said that bears are attracted to lithium batteries. Can anyone confirm this? I hadn't heard that before. I'm interested if any of you can enlighten me as to the validity of this claim.

[grundy53]

I have cameras in high bear areas and all I use is lithium batteries. I don't think it's true.

[luckyman]

Bear are attracted to about anything with an odor it seems.
If lithium's attract bear that's a good reason to use them I suppose.
I use them when the temperature drops below freeze as they take the cold better. I'm too cheap to use them all year around.

[huntnnw]

I can smell cams when they get warm reguardless of what batteries are in them

[Expedition Scout]

I seem to always have bears come and investigate my camera's. Countless video's of bears messing with the cameras. Lost one to a bear that was 20 feet in a tree over a wallow... bear climbed up the tree on three different days until he finally broke the strap, then mauled the camera for another two days until it ended up in the wallow.

I came to the same conclusion that they are attracted to the smell, so now I run all bear boxes.