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| Wolves Prefer Bacon To Researchers |
| 2009-09-05 |
| A University of Alberta researcher was surrounded by wolves, had to cancel her research season and be evacuated from the high Arctic earlier this summer after a pilot with an ecotourism agency left cardboard boxes of bacon and sausage on the tundra near their camp. The wolves ripped open the boxes of meat and gorged themselves. Catherine La Farge, who studies the colonies of moss exposed by retreating glaciers, was not attacked during the incident on Ellesmere Island, but she and her field assistant spent three hours cleaning up food and debris strewn across the landscape. Then they were confined to their kitchen tent to guard the leftovers and garbage. Even banging pots and pans didn’t frighten the wolves off. “They kept circling,” said La Farge. “It was just so unlike their previous behaviour. “They were basically having diarrhea all over the place. I was just really shocked,” she added. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 "I'm not sure what word *does* come to mind, but it ain't "shocked"." Try "eeeeeeewwwwww," 'moose. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-05 20:27 |
| #2 Being menacingly surrounded by wolves that want bacon and have severe diarrhea, I don't think "shocked" is the first word that comes to mind. I'm not sure what word *does* come to mind, but it ain't "shocked". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-09-05 19:07 |
| #1 A scientist shocked by the real world. That encapsulates for me how bad things have got in the modern world. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-09-05 16:47 |