Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks
- added September 24, 2008
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- spunkycarol
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- spunkycarol
- 1 month ago
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do the polar bears get to weigh-in on the offshore drilling debate?
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- spunkycarol
- 1 month ago
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I am sure Sara and Todd would love to be flying with scoped rifles so they could get a polar bear "thrill kill" (before they starve to death and try to eat other) along with all the wolves they enjoy killing. As an ex-homicide detecitve, it disturbes me when people who enjoy visiting death on other living organisms (Dick Cheny) get into positions of power. These are very scary people!!
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makes me sick. there is too many humans, let's feed some to the bears, criminals. too many humans around. everyone gets happy when a baby is born, cute, but at what expense? another acre of rain forest cut down, another bear drowning? i'd rather have animals around then more humans. we are a parasitic and stupid species.
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- Wessagusset_Oracle
- 1 month ago
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I think "death by polar bear" should be an option for death row inmates. We'd help to clean out the overpopulated jail cells and feed a species! Ingenious!
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- jacijacijaci
- 1 month ago
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That's horrible, those poor polar bears.
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I guess since they're eating each other we can take them off the endangered species list, right?!? Sarah would be so happy about that!
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- christina71
- 1 month ago
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Drill baby drill!!
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- christina71
- 1 month ago
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its only now that we can measure this kind of remote destruction that we should realize our effect on the environment and that what we throw away STAYS on the same planet as US.
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- Gordonclyne
- 1 month ago
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Wasn't it The founder of CNN who prophesied that we'd eventually resort to cannibalism ourselves when global warming depletes all of our resources?
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- stephenthomson
- 1 month ago
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Wow, this is so misleading in regard to anything, yes EVERYTHING about a polar bear.
OK... here is POLAR BEAR 101:
The "starving and cannibalism" is referring to a typical behavor of a lone Male Polar bear.These lone male bears will eat any cub they can catch and if the mother defends the offspring enough, they will attack her as well.
Their goal in attacking the cubs is for the female to come into estrus and allow the male to sire cubs with said female bear.
Lions do the exact same thing.THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MELTING ICE.
IT IS CALLED MATING. POLAR BEAR STYLE. YEAH IT'S UGLY. LOOK AWAY.In fact, polar bears do most if not ALL of their hunting in the water. They typically swim aprox. 60 miles a day. Some are known to swim more. They do walk alot on the ice, but that is usually to GET TO the WATER.
No they are not drowning. OMG that is truly funny. Did you know they can bring down beluga wales? They are far from helpless in the water.
Of course seals are their first choice, and they too are found in the water, and swim at great speeds... so does the bear.
To the authors of this article: Please read a book about bear behavior!
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- arcticspirit
- 1 month ago
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Don't get me wrong, I love cute polar bears and seing them drowning because of our actions makes me very sad:
But it's completely pathetic that the main reason our attention is drawn to our pollution of the atmosphere is because teddy bears are dying: we should open our eyes to the fact that thousands upon thousands of species far more vital than polar bears are dying as we speak.
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The premise is "will animals adapt or become extinct" - the bottom line is all mutation / extinction is happening through no fault of their own.
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- Mr_Costello
- 1 month ago
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The earth will be better off when we extinct ourselves.
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- HolyCity2012
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ANWR drilling should be done, we can just give the Polar bears a share of the profits. As they lie dying from starvation or whatever pollution the oil rigs cause, we can dump piles of cash next to their lifeless bodies.
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- NotAJamacianMon
- 1 month ago
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This is all Sarah Palin's fault.
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Yeah! it's all Sarah Palin's fault!
It's got nothing to do with the fact that I drive several miles to work 6 days a week. Or that my food is shipped to my grocery store from 1,500 miles away. or that my clothes are made in third world countries with no environmental laws, and have to be shipped from 5,000 miles away to my local retailer. Or that I eat beef that comes from South American farmers who cut down an area of rainforest the size of Connecticut every year. Or that I drive a fuel-guzzling SUV to drop my kids off at soccer practice.
Or that there are 130 million other people just like me.
It's all SARAH PALIN'S FAULT!
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The jokes just write themselves. Clown suits and aooga horns for everyone.
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The writing on the wall has been visible for a long time now; growing more and more bold with urgency as time slips by with no one to stop, read, and act.
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I know this is longer than most will want to read, but it does give history and the political reasons for this happening in our media.
BTW love NASA... but this is wrong when it comes to bears.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Does anyone know why the bears have a life on the ice in the first place?
(WARP IN TIME>>> POLAR BEAR HISTORY 101)
Their once lush landscape (during parts of the year) eventually became frozen all year as it has been for a very long time...
So, the once grown bears how to adapt and evolve to survive on the desolate surface of ice, that they suddenly had to call home. THAT was a crisis, actually.The bears couldn't eat the herbs, vegetation and the death of everything in their food chain due to the complete ice that for their natural diet. The originally brown bears over time became what we call polar bears.
What happens if the ice melts? Massive death of bears?
NOT HARDLY!
To claim, however, that they are facing imminent doom is stretching the truth. In 1950, let us not forget, there were about 5,000 polar bears. Now there are 25,000.Probably they will have a better diet in the summer.
We will eventually see higher birth weights of cubs as the bears adapt to any climate changes.FEAR SARAH, that is the true reason for this "crisis"
Don't worry about the bears, they survived the first crisis that froze their homeland, this should be cake.Why is this political?
First there came the computer-generated polar bear in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; then that heartrending photo, syndicated everywhere, of the bears apparently stranded on a melting ice floe; then the story of those four polar bears drowned by global warming (actually, they’d perished in a storm).Now, in a new cinema release called Earth – a magnificent, feature-length nature documentary from the makers of the BBC’s Planet Earth series – comes the most sob-inducing “evidence” of all: a poor male polar bear filmed starving to death as a result, the quaveringly emotional Patrick Stewart voiceover suggests, of global warming.
Thanks for reading.
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arcticspirit I like you
And actually, males eating cubs is not limited to bears. That generally goes for lions, some dogs and other animals as well.
