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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 5, 2019 18:58:01 GMT -5
I know its crazy right, its not like the bear killed him. I guess the authorities will look for any excuse to kill a bear.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 1:23:54 GMT -5
More than 50 polar bears invade Russian village, sparking government to declare state of emergencyA polar bear invasion is terrorizing Russians on a remote Arctic island with more than 50 beasts besieging one town. A state of emergency has been declared on Soviet nuclear testing archipelago Novaya Zemlya as the beasts enter the front doors of apartment blocks. Despite the siege, residents have been warned they face prosecution is they shoot the endangered species. People are “afraid to go outside” and “daily life is in turmoil”, said deputy head of local administration, Aleksandr Minayev. He said: “Parents are wary of letting children go to schools and kindergartens." “There are cases of aggressive behavior of wild animals, such as attacks on people and entering into residential and office buildings.” The invasion has left people “fearful” and is the worst case of wild animal invasions this island has ever seen. The focus is the town of Belushya Guba where 52 polar bears have been counted scavenging for food in local dumps and wandering around the settlement. ROAMING WITHOUT FEAR Many of the residents of this bleak outpost are Russian military personnel. Head of the local administration, Zigansha Musin, said: “I have been in Novaya Zemlya since 1983, yet I've never seen such a massive polar bear invasion.” He warned the animals are “literally chasing people and even entering the entrances of residential buildings." RARE POWDER HORN THAT BELONGED TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER GOES ON DISPLAY Despite this, some go outside even when the bears are a few feet away. The beasts have lost their fear of people, and are no longer afraid of shots being fired into the air, sounding car horns, reported The Siberian Times. The species are endangered and instead, a team of specialists has been dispatched to the outpost to give advice to residents on other measures to discourage the bears. Teachers have pleaded for security measures to protect pupils. The bears come and go but there are always at least “six or ten” prowling the apartment blocks, said Minayev. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Resident Anastasia Bondarenko has moved out but she said the bears were no longer threatened by humans. She said: “There are no more enemies….they became insolent. This is scary. “When they walk under your window at night, it is creepy.” The town’s population is just under 2,000 people and it’s the main permanent settlement on Novaya Zemlya. The archipelago in the Arctic was used by the USSR for nuclear tests. www.foxnews.com/science/more-than-50-polar-bears-invade-russian-village-sparking-government-to-declare-state-of-emergency
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 11, 2019 22:50:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 0:13:22 GMT -5
Even cubs are included i the group.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 12, 2019 5:48:26 GMT -5
Even cubs are included i the group. Yeah looks like a huge polar bear “pack”.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 15, 2019 5:55:44 GMT -5
Hungry bear finds itself trapped on top of garbage truck By Fox News A bear was spotted trapped on a truck Wednesday in Windsor, N.C. Continue Reading Below Drivers on a North Carolina highway were treated to an unusual sight this week. A black bear was spotted riding on top of a garbage truck on U.S Route 1 in Windsor, apparently trapped by the netting used to keep trash from blowing away. “Maybe we should have a black bear festival…,” the Windsor/Bertie County Chamber of Commerce quipped on their Facebook page, posting a photo of the hungry animal. After receiving a 911 call Wednesday, a Bertie County deputy pulled the truck over and informed the unaware driver of the extra, non-human passenger on board, the Associated Press reported. When the net was pulled back, the bear ran off into the woods. Bertie County officials told WTKR this was the second time in six months they had gotten a call about a bear in this situation. www.foxnews.com/us/hungry-bear-finds-itself-trapped-on-top-of-garbage-truck.amp
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 23, 2019 8:02:00 GMT -5
Baby bear escapes wildlife rescue in Georgia By Ben Hooper Feb. 22, 2019 at 9:46 AM Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A Georgia wildlife rescue is on the hunt for a bear cub that escaped from a fenced-in enclosure and managed to elude police. Lorraine Conklin of the Nepenthic Society wild animal rescue in Thomasville said the bear, which is about 8-10 weeks old and resembles a small puppy, was brought in Wednesday after being rescued near the Georgia-South Carolina state line. Conklin said the bear was missing from a fenced-in area Thursday morning, without any signs of digging or damage to the fence. A Thomasville Police Department K9 unit searched the area, but was unable to locate the baby bear. The Nepenthic Society said the bear's break-out was the first animal escape at the rescue in 38 years. "I'm more than nervous. I'm very anxious because he is very little and there's no way he can make it without help. He needs food or somebody to feed him," Conklin told WTXL-TV. www.upi.com/amp/Baby-bear-escapes-wildlife-rescue-in-Georgia/6471550846314/
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 27, 2019 5:44:43 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Feb 27, 2019 5:51:12 GMT -5
“He Was Huge" ... This is the description of every bear ever reported.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 28, 2019 6:18:19 GMT -5
BERLIN (AP) - Berlin's Tierpark zoo says its polar bear cub is almost ready to be introduced to visitors. The zoo on Tuesday released new photos of the as-yet-unnamed female cub and her mother, Tonja. The bear was born Dec. 1 and weighed 8.5 kilograms (18.7 pounds) by the time of her first medical checkup nearly two weeks ago. Zoo director Andreas Knieriem says that keepers are very satisfied with the cub's development and Tonja is a good mother. Mother and daughter will probably make their first appearance in the bears' outside enclosure - and see visitors for the first time - in mid-March. The Tierpark has the same management as Berlin's other zoo, which was home a decade ago to celebrity polar bear Knut. amp.fox13news.com/trending/berlin-s-polar-bear-cub-growing-fast-public-debut-soon
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 3, 2019 11:53:39 GMT -5
Zoo Turns Heads With Unusual Bear-Saving Strategy Ohio zoo is amassing poop to create a pregnancy test NEWSER) – An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this threatened species, the AP reports. WLWT-TV reports the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens is storing 30,000 samples of fecal matter from the US and Canada. It's being studied by researchers at the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife. Scientist Erin Curry says researchers are comparing compounds in fecal matter from females that are pregnant with those that aren't in the hope of finding specific compounds that will help develop a pregnancy test. Some poop mailed to Cincinnati can be downright flashy. Zoos with multiple females sprinkle glitter and dye on the samples to help identify whose poop is whose. A loss of sea ice habitat has threatened the species. Fewer than 25,000 polar bears remain in the wild. Zoo spokesman Michelle Curley says there are only 11 breeding pairs in North American zoos. She says Cincinnati's breeding pair has been together for two years but has yet to produce cubs. m.newser.com/story/272033/zoo-collects-poop-in-attempt-to-save-species.html
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 6, 2019 6:12:36 GMT -5
Bears that eat ‘junk food’ may hibernate less and age faster Wildlife raiding human foods might risk faster cellular aging Mama bears may need to raise their snouts and join the chorus protesting junk food. The more sugary, highly processed foods that 30 female black bears scrounged from humans, the less time the bears were likely to spend hibernating, researchers found. In turn, bears that hibernated less tended to score worse on a test for aging at the cellular level, wildlife ecologist Rebecca Kirby and her colleagues conclude February 21 in Scientific Reports. The new research grew out of an earlier project to see what wild black bears across Colorado were eating, says study coauthor Jonathan Pauli, a community ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kirby, his Ph.D. student at the time, checked diets from hundreds of bears across the state. Hunters there are not allowed to set out bear bait, such as heaps of doughnuts or candy, so the animals’ exposure to human food comes mostly from scavenging. When bears eat more processed foods, their tissue picks up higher concentrations of a stable form of carbon called carbon-13. That extra carbon comes from plants such as corn and cane sugar. (These crop plants concentrate the atmosphere’s normally sparse amounts of carbon-13 as they build sugar molecules in steps somewhat different from those in most of North America’s wild plants.) Looking for the telltale forms of carbon in that earlier study, the researchers found bears in some places scavenging “really high” proportions of people’s leftovers. On occasion, these leftovers made up more than 30 percent of bears’ diets, Pauli says. In the new study, Kirby looked at the impact of diet on hibernation. Bears typically slumber four to six months, during which female bears give birth. Kirby and her colleagues focused on 30 free-roaming females around Durango that were monitored by Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife department. The team first tested bears for carbon-13, and determined that the ones that ate more human-related foods tended to hibernate for shorter periods of time. Studies in smaller hibernating mammals hint that these seasonal metabolic slowdowns might delay the ravages of aging. If that’s true, shortening hibernation bouts might have a downside for the bears. To measure aging, the researchers tested for relative changes in length of what are called telomeres. These repetitive bits of DNA form the ends of chromosomes in complex cells. As cells divide over time, telomere bits fail to get copied and telomeres gradually shorten. Various researchers propose that tracking this shortening can reveal how quickly a creature is aging. Among bears in the study, those that hibernated for shorter periods had telomeres that shortened more quickly than those of other bears, suggesting the animals were aging faster, the team found. Free-ranging bears didn’t always cooperate with Kirby’s needs for several kinds of data, so she does not claim to have made one direct and “definitive” link between bears eating more human food and shortening telomeres as a sign of aging. So far, Kirby, now with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Sacramento, Calif., calls the evidence “suggestive.” Using additional methods to measure telomeres could help clarify what is going on at the cellular level, says telomere researcher Jerry Shay of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Still, he muses, the idea of connecting more human food, truncated bear hibernation and faster cell aging “may be correct.” www.sciencenews.org/article/bears-eat-human-food-may-hibernate-less-and-age-faster
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 10:17:23 GMT -5
Climate change is causing polar bears to lose too much weightANCHORAGE, Alaska — Some polar bears in the Arctic are shedding pounds during the time they should be beefing up, a new study shows. It’s the climate change diet and scientists say it’s not good. They blame global warming for the dwindling ice cover on the Arctic Ocean that bears need for hunting seals each spring. For their research, the scientists spied on the polar bears by equipping nine female white giants with tracking collars that had video cameras and the bear equivalent of a Fitbit during three recent springs. The bears also had their blood monitored and were weighed. What the scientists found is that five of the bears lost weight and four of them lost 2.9 to 5.5 pounds per day. The average polar bear studied weighed about 386 pounds. One bear lost 51 pounds in just nine days. “You’re talking a pretty amazing amount of mass to lose,” said US Geological Survey wildlife biologist Anthony Pagano, lead author of a new study in Thursday’s journal Science. Researchers studied the bears for 10 days in April, when they are supposed to begin putting on weight so they can later have cubs, feed the cubs and survive through the harsh winter. But because the ice is shrinking, the bears are having a harder time catching seal pups even during prime hunting time, Pagano said. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service lists polar bears as a threatened species. Polar bears hunt from the ice. They often wait for seals to pop out of holes to get air and at other times they swim after seals. If there is less sea ice and it is broken apart, bears have to travel more — often swimming — and that has serious consequences, such as more energy use, hypothermia and risk of death, said University of Alberta biology professor Andrew Derocher, who wasn’t part of the study. The study found that on the ice, the polar bears burn up 60 percent more energy than previously thought, based on these first real-life measurements done on the ice. A few of the bears travelled more than 155 miles in about 10 days off the northern coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, Pagano said. The average bear female burned about 13,200 calories a day — six times more than an active human female. “Just to break even they have to capture at least one seal every five to 10 days — and that’s just to break even,” said study co-author George Durner, a USGS research zoologist. “And if they don’t do that they’re going to lose weight.” The ice cover in the Arctic grows in the winter and melts in the summer. Because of climate change, the ice is shrinking and thinning more and earlier, he said. As the ice dwindles, “we are essentially pulling the rug out from underneath the polar bears,” Durner said. The bear videos showed researchers all sorts of usually private aspects of polar bear life, including courtship and hunting. They recorded dramatic and at times, bloody seal hunts from the bear’s perspective. “You’re seeing everything it is seeing,” Durner said. Researchers only tracked female bears because males can’t keep collars on — their heads are too small and their necks too big — Pagano said. Blaine Griffen, a Brigham Young University biology professor who wasn’t part of the study, praised the USGS work, noting that past studies have looked at resting polar bears and polar bears on treadmills in the lab. In the long run, climate change “will result in smaller bears that produce fewer cubs and that have lower survival rates,” Griffen said in an email. All over the Arctic, scientists have seen evidence of weakened polar bears, Pagano said. Last month, a video of a starving polar bear went viral, but it is from a different part of the Arctic and unlikely to be related to global warming, Durner said. “If it’s bad for polar bears, it might be affecting us in other ways — us being humans,” Durner said. “It’s part of a larger picture.” nypost.com/2018/02/02/climate-change-is-causing-polar-bears-to-lose-too-much-weight/Got this news article from Carnivora.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 6, 2019 13:07:05 GMT -5
In the long run, climate change “will result in smaller bears that produce fewer cubs and that have lower survival rates,” Griffen said in an email.
Not good news, this is what humans cause, global warming, more and more ice melting. Polar bears should kill all the humans they can, they deserve it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 8:23:40 GMT -5
Humans are the most cruel of all honestly.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 9, 2019 9:14:30 GMT -5
Humans are the most cruel of all honestly. I agree.
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 16, 2019 6:23:15 GMT -5
Berlin zoo shows off new polar bear cub BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Tierpark zoo is showing off its new polar bear cub, a three-month-old with a cuteness and playfulness that could make her the German capital’s next animal celebrity. The bear, who hasn’t been named, was born Dec. 1 and the zoo says she’s developing well. She was allowed to venture out of her indoor cage for the first time Friday, and enjoyed romping around with her mother Tonja and swimming in the enclosure’s chilly pond. The zoo says the cub will be now be allowed out daily for all to see. The Tierpark has the same management as Berlin’s other zoo, which was home to celebrity polar bear, Knut, whose fame landed him a Vanity Fair cover. He died prematurely from illness in 2011 at age 4. www.apnews.com/d5168d7a8e0349c38fb8b1aa1cab1f7b
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Post by King Kodiak on Mar 17, 2019 7:00:37 GMT -5
You have to be the worst piece of crap to separate this family.Bear cubs found by California highway may have been poached SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - Wildlife officials say they believe someone illegally separated two bear cubs from their mother and left the young animals along a Northern California highway. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says its investigators are processing evidence discovered with the cubs March 9 along State Route 96. Game wardens say they couldn't find the mother, so they took the cubs to be evaluated by wildlife veterinarians who determined they were healthy. The cubs were then transferred to a rehabilitation facility in South Lake Tahoe. Investigators from the department are seeking tips from the public. They said there are only a few hundred wildlife officers spread throughout California and they need help from residents to combat poaching. (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) www.kolotv.com/content/news/Bear-cubs-found-by-California-highway-may-have-been-poached-507250101.html
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 7:08:10 GMT -5
Climate change is causing polar bears to lose too much weight
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Some polar bears in the Arctic are shedding pounds during the time they should be beefing up, a new study shows. It’s the climate change diet and scientists say it’s not good.
They blame global warming for the dwindling ice cover on the Arctic Ocean that bears need for hunting seals each spring.
For their research, the scientists spied on the polar bears by equipping nine female white giants with tracking collars that had video cameras and the bear equivalent of a Fitbit during three recent springs. The bears also had their blood monitored and were weighed.
What the scientists found is that five of the bears lost weight and four of them lost 2.9 to 5.5 pounds per day. The average polar bear studied weighed about 386 pounds. One bear lost 51 pounds in just nine days.
“You’re talking a pretty amazing amount of mass to lose,” said US Geological Survey wildlife biologist Anthony Pagano, lead author of a new study in Thursday’s journal Science.
Researchers studied the bears for 10 days in April, when they are supposed to begin putting on weight so they can later have cubs, feed the cubs and survive through the harsh winter. But because the ice is shrinking, the bears are having a harder time catching seal pups even during prime hunting time, Pagano said. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service lists polar bears as a threatened species.
Polar bears hunt from the ice. They often wait for seals to pop out of holes to get air and at other times they swim after seals. If there is less sea ice and it is broken apart, bears have to travel more — often swimming — and that has serious consequences, such as more energy use, hypothermia and risk of death, said University of Alberta biology professor Andrew Derocher, who wasn’t part of the study.
The study found that on the ice, the polar bears burn up 60 percent more energy than previously thought, based on these first real-life measurements done on the ice. A few of the bears travelled more than 155 miles in about 10 days off the northern coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, Pagano said. The average bear female burned about 13,200 calories a day — six times more than an active human female.
“Just to break even they have to capture at least one seal every five to 10 days — and that’s just to break even,” said study co-author George Durner, a USGS research zoologist. “And if they don’t do that they’re going to lose weight.”
The ice cover in the Arctic grows in the winter and melts in the summer. Because of climate change, the ice is shrinking and thinning more and earlier, he said.
As the ice dwindles, “we are essentially pulling the rug out from underneath the polar bears,” Durner said.
The bear videos showed researchers all sorts of usually private aspects of polar bear life, including courtship and hunting. They recorded dramatic and at times, bloody seal hunts from the bear’s perspective.
“You’re seeing everything it is seeing,” Durner said.
Researchers only tracked female bears because males can’t keep collars on — their heads are too small and their necks too big — Pagano said.
Blaine Griffen, a Brigham Young University biology professor who wasn’t part of the study, praised the USGS work, noting that past studies have looked at resting polar bears and polar bears on treadmills in the lab.
In the long run, climate change “will result in smaller bears that produce fewer cubs and that have lower survival rates,” Griffen said in an email.
All over the Arctic, scientists have seen evidence of weakened polar bears, Pagano said. Last month, a video of a starving polar bear went viral, but it is from a different part of the Arctic and unlikely to be related to global warming, Durner said.
“If it’s bad for polar bears, it might be affecting us in other ways — us being humans,” Durner said. “It’s part of a larger picture.”
nypost.com/2018/02/02/climate-change-is-causing-polar-bears-to-lose-too-much-weight/
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From the looks of it the average weight of polar bears are getting smaller.
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