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Polar Bear Proclivities: Not Cool

Ermintruder

Ermintruder

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On (I think Wednesday 14 Sep?) the UK Radio 4 pre 6 o'clock news gapfill, there was a horrifying story being recounted by a British Arctic meteorologist about his personal experiences of his team's weather station / accomodation being broken into by a hungry polar bear.

It had broken down the doors of their outside toilet, and was wedged into the littlest room in the station, happily munching its way through a goodly pile of frozen human faeces, each of which (assuming unitary composition) had been deposited by the weather team over an unknown period of time (via bare cold buttocks perched across a wooden plank) into a conveniently-capacious plastic bag.

This verbal vision of this polar bear eating frozen human shits almost crashed me off the road, and I may never eat another Magnum choc-ice lolly for the rest of my life.

They (the Weather team) had to serially attempt eviction of the bear by chucking-in firecracker/fireworks into the jam-packed toilet area (it took a few attempts) whereafter it eventually lumbered away, satiated by a few kilos of human poo. But not before it burst open an engine oil plastic drum, and drank down a few litres of oil as an after-shit pudding wine.

This first-person account was utterly harrowing, and although I sympathise with the polar bears, and think that the global warming impacts upon their environment is terrible, I think they already take enough shit from us, than having to also actually eat the damn stuff too.

Who else heard it?? Sounded live, rather impromptu, and I can imagine the programme editors scrambling to pull the mike switch before he spilled the full story. Ughh ughh, shall now go and be sick....

(was detailed following this item http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37359430 )
 
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Suggest this be moved into Toilet Talk! :twisted:
 
Ermintrude said:
On (I think Wednesday 14 Sep?) the UK Radio 4 pre 6 o'clock news gapfill, there was a horrifying story being recounted by a British Arctic meteorologist about his personal experiences of his team's weather station / accomodation being broken into by a hungry polar bear.

It had broken down the doors of their outside toilet, and was wedged into the littlest room in the station, happily munching its way through a goodly pile of frozen human faeces, each of which (assuming unitary composition) had been deposited by the weather team over an unknown period of time (via bare cold buttocks perched across a wooden plank) into a conveniently-capacious plastic bag.

This verbal vision of this polar bear eating frozen human shits almost crashed me off the road, and I may never eat another Magnum choc-ice lolly for the rest of my life.

They (the Weather team) had to serially attempt eviction of the bear by chucking-in firecracker/fireworks into the jam-packed toilet area (it took a few attempts) whereafter it eventually lumbered away, satiated by a few kilos of human poo. But not before it burst open an engine oil plastic drum, and drank down a few litres of oil as an after-shit pudding wine.

This first-person account was utterly harrowing, and although I sympathise with the polar bears, and think that the global warming impacts upon their environment is terrible, I think they already take enough shit from us, than having to also actually eat the damn stuff too.

Who else heard it?? Sounded live, rather impromptu, and I can imagine the programme editors scrambling to pull the mike switch before he spilled the full story. Ughh ughh, shall now go and be sick....

(was detailed following this item http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37359430 )
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I heard something on the radio about a team who were cornered in an ice cave by a polar bear, but I didn't catch anything about it munching human poop.
That bear must be really desperate for food. Really desperate.
 
The hunger must have been unbearable!:rofl:

I'll go sit quietly in the corner, shall I?!:oops:
 
... and the polar bear killed Kenny ! .. that bastard ! .. :mad:
 
Hungry polar bears on the prowl.

A remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in its human settlements, local officials say.

Authorities in the Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people, said there were cases of bears attacking people and entering residential and public buildings. Polar bears are affected by climate change and are increasingly forced on to land to look for food. Russia classes them as endangered. Hunting the bears is banned, and the federal environment agency has refused to issue licences to shoot them. The bears had lost their fear of police patrols and signals used to warn them off, meaning that more drastic measures were needed, officials said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47185112
 
The way the world is going, I'm expecting polar bears in Scotland before long.
 
GNC said:
The way the world is going, I'm expecting polar bears in Scotland before long.
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They wouldn't survive the Cal Mac ferry journeys- you have to be born into that kind of torture to make it to the other side
 
ramonmercado said:
Hungry polar bears on the prowl.

A remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in its human settlements, local officials say.

Authorities in the Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people, said there were cases of bears attacking people and entering residential and public buildings. Polar bears are affected by climate change and are increasingly forced on to land to look for food. Russia classes them as endangered. Hunting the bears is banned, and the federal environment agency has refused to issue licences to shoot them. The bears had lost their fear of police patrols and signals used to warn them off, meaning that more drastic measures were needed, officials said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47185112
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That's not dozens of polar bears, it's dozens of FT members dressed up as polar bears doing a Flash Mob thing...
 
Polar Bears using tools.

Walruses, weighing as much as 1,300 kilograms with huge tusks and nearly impenetrable skulls, are almost impossible for a hungry polar bear to kill.

But new research suggests that some polar bears have invented a work-around — bashing walruses on the head with a block of stone or ice.

For more than 200 years, Inuit in Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic have told stories of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) using such tools to aid in killing walruses. Yet explorers, naturalists and writers often dismissed such accounts, relegating them to myth along with tales about shape-shifting bears.

The persistence of these reports, including one report from an Inuk hunter in the late 1990s, coupled with photos of a male polar bear named GoGo at a Japanese zoo using tools to obtain suspended meat compelled Ian Stirling and colleagues to investigate further.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/polar-bears-bludgeon-walrus-stones-tools-ice-inuit
 
A deer hunt filmed, I don't think Max is that messy.

In August 2020, biologist Izabela Kulaszewicz was settling in for a lazy evening at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, when a message came over the radio. Two researchers had just spotted a polar bear. Having wanted to see one all summer, Kulaszewicz, of the University of Gdańsk, and a handful of other scientists rushed outside.

About 100 meters away, a chubby female polar bear was sniffing the air and walking toward the coast. Soon, she disappeared into a dip in the tundra, only to emerge seconds later, galloping toward several reindeer on the shoreline. She went after one bull and chased it into the sea (see video, above). Less than 25 meters offshore, the predator sunk her claws in the reindeer’s back, bit its neck, and forced it underwater. The reindeer was dead within 1 minute.

The cook at the research station caught everything on film, making it the first video evidence of polar bears hunting and eating reindeer—something that had long been assumed, but never clearly seen. ...

https://www.science.org/content/article/polar-bear-hunting-reindeer-caught-tape-first-time
 
ramonmercado said:
A deer hunt filmed, I don't think Max is that messy.

In August 2020, biologist Izabela Kulaszewicz was settling in for a lazy evening at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, when a message came over the radio. Two researchers had just spotted a polar bear. Having wanted to see one all summer, Kulaszewicz, of the University of Gdańsk, and a handful of other scientists rushed outside.

About 100 meters away, a chubby female polar bear was sniffing the air and walking toward the coast. Soon, she disappeared into a dip in the tundra, only to emerge seconds later, galloping toward several reindeer on the shoreline. She went after one bull and chased it into the sea (see video, above). Less than 25 meters offshore, the predator sunk her claws in the reindeer’s back, bit its neck, and forced it underwater. The reindeer was dead within 1 minute.

The cook at the research station caught everything on film, making it the first video evidence of polar bears hunting and eating reindeer—something that had long been assumed, but never clearly seen. ...

https://www.science.org/content/article/polar-bear-hunting-reindeer-caught-tape-first-time
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He's a different kind of messy....



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Starving Polar Bear Rescued

The female cub had got it’s tongue struck in tin can foraged from a rubbish dump & was unable to eat.

Villagers in Dikson tried to remove the object but were unable to and instead contacted authorities.

Vets from Moscow Zoo battled against brutal Arctic weather conditions to reach the helpless bear just in time.

Heart-warming video has captured the moment Monetochka, who is just two-years-old, was saved by the heroic group. They sedated the animal then used pliers to prise the tin from her mouth.

Mikhail Alshinetsky, chief vet of Moscow Zoo, said: ‘It’s a bear cub, female, about two years old.

‘The tin got stuck and its lid clamped down on the tongue.

‘The animal spent a few days with a tongue stuck, and the tongue became swollen.

‘The bear was unable to drink or eat.

‘We successfully sedated her, removed the tin, and gave antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medications.’

The group of vets had flown 2,125 miles to reach the region.

After her rescue, the emaciated Monetochka was put in a cage and flown by helicopter some 50 miles into the tundra.

Vets prepared 50kg of fish to aid the young bear’s recovery in the wild.
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In an earlier video the bear was filmed approaching people who were unable to remove the can as the lid was clamped on it’s tongue & understandably, they were a bit reluctant to try too hard.

Videos at link.
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A hungry/angry polar bear.

A polar bear has killed a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village, authorities have said.

The bear entered the village of Wales on Tuesday afternoon, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, and began chasing people, police said. As it attacked the woman and boy, it was shot and killed but the mauling proved to be fatal.

Fatal polar bear attacks in Alaska are rare but experts say encounters with humans will increase as more ice melts.

Wales is a small town, mainly consisting of the native Inupiaq people. Around 150 people live in the remote settlement, located over 1,185 miles (1,907km) north-west of the state capital Juneau.

"Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents," Alaska state troopers wrote in a despatch, according to Associated Press. "The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male."

The names of the two victims were not released by police as family members were still being notified.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64315398
 
ramonmercado said:
A hungry/angry polar bear.

A polar bear has killed a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village, authorities have said.

The bear entered the village of Wales on Tuesday afternoon, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, and began chasing people, police said. As it attacked the woman and boy, it was shot and killed but the mauling proved to be fatal.

Fatal polar bear attacks in Alaska are rare but experts say encounters with humans will increase as more ice melts.

Wales is a small town, mainly consisting of the native Inupiaq people. Around 150 people live in the remote settlement, located over 1,185 miles (1,907km) north-west of the state capital Juneau.

"Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents," Alaska state troopers wrote in a despatch, according to Associated Press. "The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male."

The names of the two victims were not released by police as family members were still being notified.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64315398
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Update.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for pathogens that affect the brain and cause aggressive behavior, officials said Monday.

Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen, a state wildlife veterinarian, collected and examined samples from the bear’s head the day after the attack, when weather conditions allowed her and an Alaska State Trooper to fly to the village.

The results of her analysis, which were released Monday but initially were dated Feb. 3, indicate the bear was an adult male, probably older and in poor physical health. Officials sent a tooth to a lab to determine the bear's age, but those results won’t be known for months.

Standard tests conducted on available tissues for pathogens were negative for rabies, toxoplasmosis, distemper and avian influenza.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...ar,aggressive behavior, officials said Monday.
 
Leek Polat Bears, all have their own quirks.

A family of polar bears relocated to a wildlife park are starting to show their individual and unique personalities, a keeper said.

Hope and her two 19-month-old cubs, Nanook and Noori, arrived at Peak Wildlife Park near Leek on 30 June.
The bears moved to the new habitat after a previous home, at Orsa Predator Park, Sweden, shut down.
While the male cubs squabble over toys, their mother is more cautious and protective, said keeper Yaz Walker.

"The boys are definitely much more playful and usually, with a bit of encouragement, mum will join them as well," she added.
"We're getting to see the individual characteristics and behaviours they do that makes them unique."

Polar bear cubs
IMAGE SOURCE, PA MEDIA Image caption, Polar bear cubs Nanook and Noori, who were born at Orsa Predator Park, Sweden, in 2021, shake themselves dry

The bears have an "enrichment schedule", with an array of toys on hand to keep them entertained. They absolutely love traffic cones, which is so bizarre, but they love them and love running around with them - they'll play with them for hours," said Ms Walker. "They'll spend hours just running around with them, jumping into the water and jumping on top of them."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66243090
 
How Polar bears survived previous climate changes.

Polar bears are a familiar sight to many through the media as we see evocative images of singular bears floating on isolated ice rafts as they face the harsh realities of climate change shrinking sea ice in the Arctic.

Their range is significantly impacted by the presence of perennial sea ice—that which survives at least one summer melt season. Simulations suggest polar ice cover is predicted to disappear during summer months by 2050, meaning this apex predator is increasingly being threatened by extinction due to habitat loss.

The response of this majestic beast to climate change during the last deglaciation is the focus of new research published in Quaternary Science Reviews to determine the effect on their global range and population size.

The Late Glacial, occurring 12,000–15,000 years ago, experienced significant melting of the expansive Scandinavian and North American ice sheets in the northern hemisphere that helped moderate the planet's temperature. This occurs due to ice albedo, whereby incoming solar radiation from the sun melts the "white" ice and exposes more of the comparatively "dark" land and sea, which absorbs the radiation rather than reflecting it back out to space. Consequently, more of the neighboring snow and ice melts, revealing more of the "dark" surface to absorb heat and so the feedback loop continues.

Professor Heikki Seppä, from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues turned to fossil bones (including forearms, upper hindlimbs and skulls) and teeth previously reported from various Scandinavian countries and islands off the north coast of Russia. These were found in coastal sections as well as archaeological sites, where they likely represent the aftermath of hunting by humans.

The research team determined that polar bears existed on the southwestern margin of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet through the Late Glacial, surviving into the earliest Holocene (the present interglacial over the last 12,000 years). Paleoenvironmental proxies from marine sediments, such as single-celled foraminifera and diatomaceous algae, suggest summer temperatures in the region were 6–10°C. ...

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fossil-results-polar-survived-global.html
 
Polar bears are still doing fine, ta.

"From late-1960s population estimate by the US Fish and Wildlife Service of about 12,000 individuals, numbers have almost tripled, to just over 32,000 in 2023.

The paper also notes there were no reports from the Arctic in 2023 to indicate polar bears were being harmed due to lack of suitable habitat, partly because Arctic sea ice in summer has not declined since 2007. Now Ice-dependent polar bear numbers worldwide are above 32,000."

From:

https://order-order.com/2024/02/27/2023-another-great-year-for-polar-bears/

- Which quotes this report:

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Crockford-State-of-Polar-Bears-2023.pdf

maximus otter
 
What a guy!

A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to protect his wife in a northern First Nations community in Canada is expected to fully recover from the severe injuries he sustained in the attack.

But experts caution that changing environmental conditions will lead to a shift in where and when polar bears are spotted, increasing the risk of surprise encounters.

The couple, who live in Fort Severn First Nation, found a polar bear in their driveway early on Tuesday morning.

The bear lunged at the woman, who “slipped to [the] ground as her husband leapt on to the animal to prevent its attack”, the Nishnawbe Aski police service said in a news release.

As the man tried to fight off the bear, he sustained serious injuries to his arms and legs. A neighbour heard the struggle and ran over, shooting the bear several times.

Police responded to reports of gunshots and, after searching the area eventually found the bear dead in a wooded area.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/05/canada-polar-bear-attack-man-ontario
 
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