http://news.yahoo.com/polar-bears-turn-beloved-species-food-climate-change-184959640.html
Wow. Thatâs really sad.
Global Warming is a hoax, thatâs why you idiots ditched it for âClimate Changeâ.
You fucking morons will believe anything Huffpo tells you to believe. lulz
Babies as Food
âIt can seem unnatural,â Barthel says, âbut there are reasons. They might sound cold to us, but theyâre simpleâand they have to do with resources.â
Indeed, mother bears, felines, canids, primates, and many species of rodentsâfrom rats to prairie dogsâhave all been seen killing and eating their young. Insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds also have been implicated in killing, and sometimes devouring, the young of their own kind.
When mammalian mothers give birth, they must begin nursing their infantsâsomething they can do only if theyâre healthy and well nourished.
But if, for instance, a mother bear in the wild gives birth to unhealthy or deformed cubs, or is unable to find enough to eat, she will typically kill and consume them.
âThey become a resource, one she canât afford to waste,â Barthel says.
A mother bearâor lion or wild dogâdoes the same if she canât nurse her cubs or find food for them. And if one of her cubs dies, sheâll most likely eat it immediately, as Khali did. This nourishes her and has the added benefit of removing the carcass. âThat way thereâs nothing rotting in her den which might attract predators,â Barthel says.
And as the bears were only able to grab the dolphins because of a sudden storm, their consumption could be a fluke.
Oh noz, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!
So, when was the last time that happened?
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Youâre the only one here having hysterics, Chinaskee.
Typical moronic prog responses. lulz
Meanwhile, global warming is a hoax. You idiots will believe anything.
What, storms in the arctic? Never. It has never ever happened before in the history of the planet. Ever.
Try answering without the large dose of intellectual dishonesty. When was the last time polar bears ate dolphins?
I donât know if he canât or wonât, but he ainât gonna.
Thatâs true.
How can anyone know? It isnât as if there was established science out in the field hundredS or thousands of years ago.
In Photos: Polar Bears Eat Dolphins Trapped in Ice
by Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | June 13, 2015 08:32am ET
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For the first time, scientists have reported polar bears preying on white-beaked dolphins in Svalbard. The sighting, described in the journal Polar Research, is important because shrinking polar bear habitat is expected to change where the animals can live, particularly in the area of Svalbard and the Barents Sea, the researchers say. Images captured of the Svalbard polar bears reveal their lives in the Norwegian High Arctic. [Read the full story on polar bears eating dolphins]
First bite
Scientists spotted a male adult polar bear eating a white-beaked dolphin trapped in ice.
On April 23, 2014, scientists observed an adult male polar bear preying on two white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) that were trapped in the ice on a small fjord in Svalbard, Norwegian High. (Photo Credit: Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Research (http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.26612))
Dolphin Head
An adult male polar bear feeds on the head of a white-beaked dolphin on a fjord on Svalbard,
Here, the adult male polar bear feeds on the head of the white-beaked dolphin on a fjord on Svalbard, a group of islands in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea area. (Photo Credit: © Samuel Blanc / www.sblanc.com)
Cover up
A male adult polar bear with a white-beaked dolphin carcass.
When the scientists spotted the male polar bear, he had eaten most parts of one dolphin (labeled dolphin B by the researchers) and was in the process of covering the second dolphin, this one mostly intact, with snow. (Photo Credit: Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute)
Caching behavior
A male adult polar bear with a white-beaked dolphin carcass.
The researchers noted that such âcaching behaviorâ is not typical for polar bears, since the animals consume most of the fat from their kills within a day, which isnât a lot of time during which they need to keep the carcass away from competitive scavengers. (Photo Credit: Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute)
White-beaked dolphin
Carcass of a white-beaked dolphin eaten by a polar bear.
âWhite-beaked dolphins are frequent visitors to Svalbard waters in summer, but have not previously been reported this far north in early spring,â the researchers write online June 1 in the journal Polar Research. âWe suggest they were trapped in the ice after strong northerly winds the days before, and possibly killed when forced to surface for air at a small opening in the ice.â (Photo Credit: Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute)
This happened in Norway, not exactly the actual arctic circle.
Itâs not like these were bottle nosed dolphins, either.
Who knows? But Iâm sure they do it every chance they get.
Hereâs a news flash: Polar Bears Eat Animals
It actually depends on the dolphinsâŠlol
These LIBS have reacted as if these dolphins are from tropical waters and migrated all the way up to Norway because the water is now tropical there.
Funny that
Wait. The dolphins were trapped in ice? That canât be possible, the Earth has a fever!
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The real âtragedyâ is that people donât actually look things up (of course Iâll be told itâs just trolling) and make a decision for themselves.
Issuism says itâs a sign of Armageddon and ISSUISTS start to foam at the mouth.
Itâs WARMING but dolphins are frozen in the ice. And no one asks âHuh?â at the very least.