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| Global Warming Making Polar Bears Cannibals? |
| 2006-06-13 |
| Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found. The study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 north of Alaska and western Canada, including the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth. Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and use sea ice for feeding, mating and giving birth. |
| Posted by:Desert Blondie |
| #5 "During 24 years of research on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region of northern Alaska and 34 years in northwestern Canada, we have not seen other incidents of polar bears stalking, killing and eating other polar bears," the scientists said. Gee, ya think meebe the reason why scientists study stuff is to learn something new that they've never seen before. Does the fact that we've never sen this in 34 years of studying bears mean that: a) we didn't see that many bears to make ironclad generalizations or b) it's the end of polar bear life as we know it. |
| Posted by: WTF! 2006-06-13 23:49 |
| #4 Tibor, wrong, they love them yummy! ;-) |
| Posted by: zazz 2006-06-13 21:14 |
| #3 Polar Bears: Why Do They Hate . . . Uh . . . Polar Bears? |
| Posted by: Tibor 2006-06-13 21:00 |
| #2 Humans adapt to population increases by improving farming techniques. Animals either starve or feed on each other. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-06-13 15:54 |
| #1 Another possibility: One possibility is that there are just more bears around in general. Their numbers have increased steadily over the last 25 years, perhaps to historic highs, and it is thought that about 2,000 polar bears may now live in the Beaufort Sea area. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-06-13 15:53 |