Here’s the ‘Telegraph’ take on it:
The images, taken in Hudson Bay, Canada, around 200 miles north of the town of Churchill, Manitoba, show a male polar bear carrying the bloodied head of a polar bear cub it has killed for food.Oh, noes! The polar bears are being driven to eat each other by eeeeevill mankind!
Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice. But the melting of sea ice as a result of rising global temperatures has made it more difficult for polar bears to hunt seals at sea, confining the bears to land.
Surely, this has never happened before?
And here’s the ‘Mail’ article:
Retired Environment Canada biologist Ian Stirling says evidence suggests cubs are being killed for food, not just so the male can mate with the mother.Oh, if only scientists hadn’t blotted their copybook with Climategate. Now, is he telling the truth?
He told CBC news that the nearby Hudson Bay sea ice, which the bears use to get at the seals they need to fatten up for winter, is not appearing until weeks later than it used to.
Wait, why not ask the people who have lived alongside these animals for centuries? They will tell us that this is all the doing of Big Oil, ruining their idyllic environment, won’t they?
Ah. Maybe not:
But this theory is disputed by Inuit leaders in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, who claim it is wrong to connect the bears' behaviour with starvation.Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark…
Kivalliqu Inuit Association president Jose Kusugak said: ‘It makes the south – southern people – look so ignorant. ’
‘A male polar bear eating a cub becomes a big story and they try to marry it with climate change and so on, it becomes absurd when it’s a normal, normal occurrence.’Oh, Jose, don’t expect to be invited to address any future global warming conferences in native dress after that! No canapés and limos in your future, I suspect…
Sting, Bono and numerous other celebrity environmentalists could not be reached for comment. Surprisingly…
Tim Worstall also finds it a little odd, but that’s because he’s only reading the first story.
I Googled 'polar bear cannibals', the story has floated around for some years.
ReplyDeleteThe Daily Mail readers don't seem much impressed with it, bless'em.
I never understood why people were so keen on them in the first place.
ReplyDeleteBears are physically stronger than us and would tear your head off if you upset it.
The reason we have such a good life is that our ancestors were smart enough to get rid of most of them.
I was going to post on this myself but realised most people were going to tear this a new one.
ReplyDeleteHave they never seen Life in the Freezer where the mother hides the cubs when the male comes sniffing around.
Infanticide in Apex predators is very common. Nearly all Male bears will try and kill cubs for an easy meal and to protect their territory from potential rivals for food and mates.
Big Cats will do it as well.
Male lions will often kill all the cubs of the previous dominant male to ensure only thier genes go forward,
Is that due to global warming as well.
Utter straw grasping by the warmisters and no coincidence it crops up during Copenhagen
wv. mensurf - Why yes we do
Yes JuliaM, that animals do such things IS a part of nature.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, it may be within the nature of folk who find the abuse of our environment comical, to maintain a state of side splitting laughter whilst abandoning their homes and possessions to the sea.
Caring for Nature is a fashionable good.
ReplyDeleteIt requires a certain level of wealth for it to be affordable and supported.
Increasing taxes on productivity will kill the economy and thus will lead to MORE environmental destruction.
This is one of the lessons of the USSR.
Also CO2 is plant-food, not pollution.
What Pavlov's cat said.
ReplyDeleteOn the basis of this ill-informed article [repeated in the Sun too], my cat is also a cannibal.
ReplyDeleteIt is very common for mothers to kill their young if they suspect there is something wrong with them or to eat dead ones to clear out the nest.
It's not nice but it's nature's way of making sausages.
I've seen male Guinea Pigs eat new born Guinea Pigs.
ReplyDeleteA bit of a shocker when you're just a kid.
Can't wait for the day when we see voters eating politicians, because it's the right thing to do - may need some extra seasoning to help it all down though!
ReplyDelete'[Something happens] and they try to marry it with climate change and so on, it becomes absurd when it’s a normal, normal occurrence."
ReplyDeleteThat shows how ignorant he is of our Southern ways. They marry everything to climate change down here. it has become absurd and it is an everyday occurrence.
There was another good Eskimos make mockery of global warmenists story a while back.
"The Daily Mail readers don't seem much impressed with it, bless'em."
ReplyDeleteSometimes, they can surprise you. Peasantly!
"Utter straw grasping by the warmisters and no coincidence it crops up during Copenhagen"
The good news is a lot sem able to see through it.
"I've seen male Guinea Pigs eat new born Guinea Pigs.
A bit of a shocker when you're just a kid."
Not a good day when you are a teaching assistant and the class gerbil has babies - and then, has lunch! Oh, well, it was an education, I'm told...
"There was another good Eskimos make mockery of global warmenists story a while back."
Heh! Obama is an unmitigated disaster, it's true, but I think an equally dangerous bullet was dodged with McCain...
When I got my Siberian Husky as a puppy, the father had to be kept separate from the puppies so that he didn't kill and eat them. I hadn't realised, until now, that it was because of Catastrophic Man-made Global Warming. White Western males' pernicious influence on the climate - by their selfish deeds of not dying of disease at a young age and having a relatively comfortable, enjoyable life - is so massive, that it affects things long in the past, before humanity even existed. Truly we are monsters.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when that Ecofag decided it'd be a right-on and groovy idea to climb into a polar bear enclosure so that they could bond spiritually, and align their auras or whatever, and instead the polar bear decided it'd be a right-on and groovy idea to maul the dizzy bitch.