Posted on 09/19/2015 12:03:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Who just bought National Geographic? Rupert Murdock?
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
Starvation is nature’s primary way of dealing with species that are OVERPOPULATED.
I thought it was photoshopped.
It obviously has a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection), is not on obummercare, will soon perish looking for the local welfare office.
THIS picture like the planted little dead boy in the surf (that NO ONE WAS HELPING) will cost us BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!
Somebody ought to shoot that scrawny thing and help complete the *circle of life*.
This ridiculousness about rising sea levels is so easily disproven. If the sea is rising in one place, it should be rising in all places, since water seeks its own level. I live near tidal regions... regions for which I can find land survey maps from the 1600s. One island whose max elevation is 3 feet has the same shoreline as it did in the 1600s survey maps. If the sea had any significant rise over the last 300 years, half the island would be submerged. But it is not. This sea rise BS is total rubbish.
I’m thinking that some male polar bear told her that she was too fat, thus she went on one of those tv diet plans to make herself thin and svelte to regain her boy friend’s interest
Diseased and deformed by bathhouse warming.
Out here in farm country, an urbanite visiting our family farm asked about our ‘disappearing’ topsoil. I went to the location of a survey marker anchored in bedrock more than one hundred years ago when the plaque rested on the surface of the topsoil on flat ground. I had to dig down 12 inches through the newer accumulated topsoil to find it. Same thing happens to lush suburban lawns.
Facts don’t deter the MSM or today’s ‘scientists’.
That theory is very outdated. Isle Royale has 1200 healthy moose and only 3 wolves left. Your theory sounds very close to natural balance - a theory that has been completely debunked. It has been replaced by chaos theory and in fact is way overly simplistic. Herds of caribou have been depleted beyond recovery in BC by newly introduced wolves. The wolves are thriving.
Well..
At least THAT polar bear got a walrus..
If there are so few wolves there, then something has been happening to them, or they were introduced in smaller than sustainable numbers. Three wolves is not a sustainable population—even if two of those wolves are female, and they each give birth to the maximum number of cubs, inbreeding will soon cause defective gene alleles to accumulate in the genome, reducing the fitness of the stock.
The natural balance of predator and prey *is* complicated, and complication introduces chaos. There is more than one prey species, and more than one predator. Some species have both roles. Diseases can wipe out a population. Weather conditions or non-native species invasions can wipe out the plants that prey depend on. And so forth.
In order to study and understand a system, it must be reduced to its simplest components, much as I reduced the predator/prey paradigm to the simplest component in order to explain it. The fact that the system in nature has many more components at play does not invalidate the simplified model.
Could be liberal photoshopped...
You are unfamiliar with Isle Royale? Tax payer funded 50 year experiment to prove pretty much what you claim to be true. And a miserable failure.
IMO, the only good wolf is a dead one, just letting you know where I stand on predator issues. You may want to catch up on agenda 21 and the loading of predators from other states and countries to convince ranchers and farmers to go out of business. The west is a mess. Thanks to the invasive **huge** gray wolf introduced from Alberta.
When children are standing in cages at school bus stops for protection from wolves, and native american tribes are airlifting out pregnant caribou to a sanctuary so they can safely give birth away from wolves (BC) the wolves are winning. Thank you liberal puke groups Sierra Club and friends.
The fed govt has these wolves protected so if they attack your pet dog, and believe me in Minnesota and Wisconsin they are taking them from front porches in fairly high numbers, you are not allowed to kill the wolf.
There is nothing I hate more than this gray wolf, most of which easily outweigh me by 100 lbs. They are attacking and killing people here and there now too.
No, I am not familiar with Isle Royale. If the experiment failed, it was not because the predator/prey paradigm is wrong. The most likely reason would be that an insufficient number of wolves were introduced, and there was not enough genetic diversity for the population to survive.
Have you ever been to Yellowstone? Around the turn of the 20th century, there was a massive effort to eradicate wolves from that whole area. Unfortunately, the effort was successful. As a result, populations of prey animals such as elk exploded. With those populations exploding, young aspen and cottonwood trees were consumed almost as soon as they germinated and poked their tops above the ground. Only a few years after the last wolves were killed, the ecology in Yellowstone was suffering: overgrazing led to erosion, with all of the problems that causes. An elk control program was introduced, but never successfully fixed the ecological problems. After several years, only mature aspens and cottonwood trees remained, since the sprouts never survived. Fast-forward a few decades to the wolf reintroduction program: the trees are once again replenishing their populations, and the balance of just about every other animal species in Yellowstone has shifted. Keep in mind that the wolf-free condition was unnatural and directly led to imbalances in every other population. Reintroducing the wolves is, in effect, restoring the natural balance.
We may not like every predator—for instance, I am terrified of running into a bear when I go hiking—and I am a mosquito magnet—but no predator, large or small, can be eradicated from a habitat without profoundly affecting the rest of the habitat.
In this area, there are too few predators, which has led to an overabundance of deer. It is not safe to drive at night because of them. Just north of us, in Pennsylvania, there are over 100,000 deer-car collisions every year. One night, I was on the freeway when the car directly in front of me hit a deer. I did not know why the car was suddenly swerving as if it was out of control, then dove off into the margin and stopped. I saw copious amounts of blood, body parts strewn across the road, and then a torso which I could not avoid. I hit it hard, but did not seem to damage my car (I had it checked). The high population of deer and resulting collisions is a direct consequence of there being too few predators to control their numbers.
In the cases of predators venturing into human areas, those predators are tracked down and killed. You do have some responsibility to not leave food and such where they can access it, because that acclimates them to being in human areas. Most predators will not bother humans.
Oh, here is the Wikipedia article on the Yellowstone wolves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone. You can learn more about them by visiting Yellowstone. The park has many educational programs about ecology.
BTW, groups like the Sierra Club are not ecology minded as much as they are socialism/communism minded. They were infiltrated by socialists decades ago, and their original mission has long since been subverted to spreading communism under the guise of ecology. You can get a much better sense of ecology by studying one of the biological sciences than you can get by reading Sierra Club screeds.
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