Posted on 12/04/2019 8:25:10 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Thick, black graffiti sprayed onto a Russian polar bear's coat poses an extra threat to an animal already in danger, experts say.
Video shared on social media shows a lumbering polar bear whose back had been branded with "T-34," the name of an old Soviet Union tank.
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Polar Bears are listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The loss of sea ice cover due to climate warming is considered the single biggest threat to their long-term survival.
A reassessment of their habitat in 2015 found there was a "high probability" that the global polar bear population will decline by more than 30% over the next 35 to 40 years.
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However, looks like a "Hold my beer" moment to spray paint the bear.
Was this some scientific expedition painting the ID# to track the bear?
Because if that was just some fraternity prank then that takes some major balls!
Save the whales.
And jus exactly how do you know that Trump didn’t collude with the Ruskies to spray paint the polar bear?
Can’t they just cover it with Kilz primer? ;-)
Al Gore said all the polar bears would be extinct by now...
WTF? the article is someone spouting globul warming and the plight of polar bears when the ice caps melt. and they are just throwing crap out there about the bear not surviving with zero evidence the bear has been harmed.
Amish at work, again?
So a story on a drunk spray-painting a polar bear, and we get a blab-fest on globull warming.
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N is fake news. There are 30% more polar bears now than 50 years ago according to a population count in 2017.
Polar Bears get spray painted all the time.
In the town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada they actually have a bear patrol to keep polar bears from wandering into town. If they catch one they paint a number on him and then fly him hundreds of miles away and release him.
If the same bear shows up again they’ll know by the number. In that case the bear is killed because obviously it didn’t get the message to stay out of town.
They’ve been doing this for years, and the bears obviously survive.
An imaginary imagining of a possibly improbable possibility found all scary stuff and possibly billions of bears going to die.
The polar bear doesn’t look as covered in paint as the ducks I see in news articles.
Polar bears have to travel further for food because there are more of them.
Because Russia.
More like “hold my vodka”.
So we should hate the Russians even more, right?!
BS
That thing was marked by rangers or scientists....
Stew pet article and contrived.
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