Posted on 06/15/2015 1:21:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Faced with a rapidly changing habitat, polar bears are adapting with a new entrée: For the first time, a polar bear was seen preying on a white-beaked dolphin carcass that had been trapped in the ice in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
In April 2014, a male polar bear with a full belly was spotted near a recently devoured white-beaked dolphin.
These dolphins rarely venture so far north in the Arctic; they prefer the sub-Arctic, which has less sea ice and more open water. "If it had been a more usual sea-ice year, I do not think the dolphins would have been that far north in the spring," said Jon Aass, primary author of the study and a research scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
“...a male polar bear with a full belly was spotted near a recently devoured white-beaked dolphin...”
Polar bear: “ERRRRPPPPP!!!”
We’re all gonna die!
Can we gwt Al Gore to swim in those waters?
The polar bears are eating the dolphins. New York is about to be inundated by the Atlantic Ocean. Rachel Dolezal is black. Bruce Jenner has imaginary but real ovaries. What a wonderful world we live in!
Maybe dolphins are simply delicious?
Polar bears eat any dang thing they please, because they are bears.
End of discussion. There’ve been dolphins in the arctic for a long, long time!
At least that far north the dolphin would be tuna free.
Just like the opinions of a small group of people in rigged political polls are deceptively interpreted as meaning that all citizens must have the same opinion on a given issue, I suppose that one polar bear spotted eating dolphin, is likewise “fairly” interpreted as meaning that all polar bears must be eating dolphins as a consequence of PC global warming.
Jon Aass,...Sorry, says it all. If a bear, especially in subzero temps., sees something easy to eat, guess what? He gonna eat it.
Perhaps, the Polar Bears got wise to white-beaked dolphin getting trapped in the ice and figured a free meal worth the journey?
Glad to see they’re getting some variety.
Hey, dolphins - those why bears ain’t “cute”.
Upvote.
Well they seemed so cute in those Coca-Cola commercials.
White is the new Black.
A dolphin trapped by ice is more proof of Global Warming? These people are seriously insane.
The dolphins are there because of less sea ice this year. Less sea ice caused by the changed jet stream in 2013. The change in the jet stream causes warmer water to go north to Svalbard which causes a greater seabed release of methane, which in turn reduces ice at the sea surface.
Not because of globul worming.
How many years was the dolphin frozen in the ice and drifting ,LOL
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