Posted on 10/17/2015 7:42:14 PM PDT by moose07
For 15 years, Irish anthropologist Martina Tyrrell has studied the relationship between humans and animals in Arviat, an Inuit community on the west coast of Hudson Bay, where the townspeople are increasingly having to cope with a large and dangerous visitor - the polar bear.
It's a Sunday afternoon in mid-October. I'm standing near the cemetery at the eastern end of Arviat, with a handful of other people. All eyes are fixed on the newly formed sea ice where a polar bear bellyflops into the sea, hauls itself back on to the broken ice, and bellyflops again.
Inuit men and women, accustomed to close encounters with polar bears, seem to be no less in awe of this creature than I am. There are gasps of delight at the bear's antics, and informed discussion about its age, size and sex - and the reasons why it is behaving like this.
This is the seventh or eighth bear I have seen in as many days. Daily, I join townspeople on the dock near my house. Binoculars are passed around as we watch a mother bear and two yearling cubs on the snowy slope on the far side of the inlet.
I visit the wildlife officer one afternoon and find him at his huge office window, peering out at the sea ice through a telescope.
Loads more at site....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
....but I thought polar bears were becoming extinct because of GoreBull warming.......
"When Al Gore was Born there where only 7000 Bears.
Today only 30000 remain"
I’d prefer alligators.
That’s a lie! It is impossible! There aren’t any!
They are! They are! Didn’t you see the “Key Fact” bullet in the article?
“Climate change is currently the single greatest threat to polar bears - their icy habitat is melting away”
It doesn’t matter that there are no supporting or corroborating references given, but if it’s a “Key Fact”, it must be true.
A shocking revelation,isn’t it!
Have we been lied too all these years? *sharp intake of breath. *
“I’d prefer alligators.”
I’ll see what’s in the storeroom. :)
Sort of like when I lived in Port Townsend, WA. Out pulling Dungeness crab pots around Marrowstone Island, we would see dozens of Bald Eagles every day -— but there weren’t supposed to be any. We were shocked, I tell you!
Still worse, up in Ketchikan, AK there would be more eagles than gulls flying around the bubble ups off the canneries ... very troubling ...
All over Western WA, you can see Eagles daily. At a park the Ranger warned me that an Eagle had been trying to carry away little dogs of picnickers.
“One must learn to ignore these images you have before your own eyes.”
That must be a beautiful sight to see. A flock of Bald eagles.....nice. :)
When it gets cold, alligators crawl in a hole and sleep.
Sometimes the eagles get really agitated about not existing and carry away the picnickers ...
Yep, his nose is cold.
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