Climate Change is a Hoax?
December 8, 2011 at 12:28 PM 1 comment
Put this in your pipe and smoke it, climate change deniers:
An adult polar bear is seen dragging the body of a cub that it has just killed across the Arctic sea ice.
Photo: Jenny E. Ross
Polar bears normally hunt seals but if these are not available, the big predators will seek out other sources of food – even their own kind.
The picture was taken by environmental photojournalist Jenny Ross in Olgastretet, a stretch of water in the Svalbard archipelago.
“This type of intraspecific predation has always occurred to some extent,” she told BBC News.
“However, there are increasing numbers of observations of it occurring, particularly on land where polar bears are trapped ashore, completely food-deprived for extended periods of time due to the loss of sea ice as a result of climate change.
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And without their customary platform on which to hunt seals [sea ice], bears have gone looking for alternative sources of food, says Ross.
“On land, they’re looking for human garbage and human foods; they’re starting to prey on seabirds and their eggs.
“None of those alternative foods can support them, but they are seeking them out.
“Predating another bear is a way to get food; it’s probably a relatively easy way for a big adult male. And it seems that because of the circumstances of the loss of sea ice – that kind of behaviour may be becoming more common.”
Polar bears are already endangered, a situation that will accelerate if adults begin killing and eating younger generations.
Way to go humans!
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klem | December 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM
““This type of intraspecific predation has always occurred to some extent,” she told BBC News.“However, there are increasing numbers of observations of it occurring..”
Ok let me see if I have this right. She says canibalism has always happened but they are observing it more often so anthropogenic climate change is the cause? Observing a phenomenon more frequently simply means they are seeing it more, it does not mean it is happening more. Sheesh.
Photojournalists doing science, Oy vey.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, climate change alarmists.