Posted on 12/14/2007 12:13:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Oh well. At least now they're will to say SOME scientists, instead of just SCIENTISTS (with "most" or "all" being implied), which has been their habit in the past.
A small victory, perhaps, but notable.
Lemmmings do this too. Of course lemmings are 10,000 times smaller so the destruction is less awesome.
This is the big news? The walrus population has grown???
LOL
"I know I can't swim, but that's Hulk Hogan approaching on that jet ski."
La Nina, wind shifts.
The sea level rose 1” right about the time she went swmimming. Melting of the polar ice caps or simply displacement by a large lard-based object?
Goo-goo-ga-choob
Running from the polar bears?
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Eating
Once a seal is caught, the polar bear carries the seal away from the water to make sure the seal doesn’t escape. The skin and blubber are eaten first and if the meat is eaten at all, it is eaten last.
Polar bears have big stomachs. A 500kg (1100lb) bear can fill its stomach with 75kg (165lbs) of food. (Yikes, that’s how big I am!) Their big stomachs let them eat large meals every few days instead of having to hunt all the time. The blubber is swallowed in large chunks because the bears don’t chew their food very much. To stay white and camouflaged, the bears will stop eating and spend a few minutes cleaning themselves by rolling in the snow or water before returning to eat again.
Drinking
When polar bears are on the sea ice, there is little or no fresh water for them to drink. All the ice they are on is made of salt water, which is not good to drink. When a polar bear eats fat and blubber, they digest it into energy and water. They get all the fresh water they need from the fat they eat. Pretty cool, eh? Arctic foxes and birds usually eat any leftover meat. When the ice melts, the bones fall into the ocean.
Why eat so much blubber?
Many animals will eat all summer to survive the winter, but polar bears do the opposite; polar bears eat all winter to survive the summer. A polar bear uses about 2kg (4.5lbs) of fat each day just to survive. In the summer, when polar bears can’t hunt seals (there is no ice to stand on!) they can go for several months without a big meal. If the summer lasts 90 days (3 months) and a polar bear doesn’t catch a seal during that time, but loses 2kg each day, that’s 180kg (400lbs). Polar bears can have big weight changes and still stay healthy as long as they eat lots during the winter.”
There’s only one solution to walrus stampedes caused by global warming. Kill all humans.
Alternate Headline: Walrus Over-Population Sorts Itself Out
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The possibilities...
“Bush lied, Walruses died!”
It has many years since I was in school but I thought "ice" was fresh water. Last time I was on a cruise to Alaska, the ship sent a small boat out to some floating ice to get some so they could make drinks using the ice berg ice.
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