Posted on 08/26/2017 7:46:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Grizzly bears have stopped eating salmon in favour of elderberries after being forced to make a choice due to climate change.
Warming temperatures meant that the berries are ripening earlier than usual, at exactly the same time as the freshwater streams on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are overflowing with sockeye salmon.
The island's brown bears typically feed first on salmon in early summer, followed by elderberries later in the season, in late August and September.
“What you have is a scrambling of the schedule," said William Deacy, a biologist at Oregon State University that studied the phenomenon.
"It's essentially like if breakfast and lunch were served at same time and then there is nothing to eat until dinner. You have to choose between breakfast and lunch because you can only eat so much at a time."
The study found that during the unusually warm summer of 2014, the bears, which would traditionally kill up to 75 percent of the salmon, were nowhere to be seen near the streams.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...
Best hilarious post of the day!
“What does a griz eat? Anything it wants.
I think this dipshit should go interview the griz and ask face to face.”
I agree. The dipshits liver would stand out in sharp contrast embedded in a steaming pile of partially digested berries.
Yes! Indeed the US northwest has had a very warm summer. Here in the Upper Midwest[i.e.Minnesota], my tomato plants only developed blossoms early in July which meant the fruit is ripening in the last week of August. I picked my first tomato yesterday, the 25th day of August.
Typical of climatologists who push the AGW dogma, They ignore the geographical areas which are having a cold summer.
Global warming reduces predation of salmon? Another unanticipated benefit.
The writer doesn’t seem to understand the word “omnivore”. Bears will eat most anything. I know some people in Telluride, Colorado whose garbage bin resembles a Brinks truck to keep grizzles from scavenging their refuse. Besides, it’s well known that bears seem to crave and purposely (instinctively) eat berries and other such foods after hibernation to help them pass the “stopper” in their digestive tract that keeps them plugged during the long winter months slumbering in a den.
This is news? The bears love all the berries on my family’s upstate NY farm, and always have. These climate change whack jobs are seriously brain impaired.
Ah, yes...SJGB
What a stupid declaration....LOLOLOL.......I just watched a video on bears, berries and salmon......this junk article is just that junk....LOLOL...what idiots...they eat berries while waiting for the salmon runs naturally.....
Whoever wrote that junk article hasn’t a clue what he’s saying......
I guess these bears at Brook Falls didn’t get the memo.
Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mu_febWXg
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loved berry pies.
He would go out into the woods and pick a hatful of berries and bring them home to his Mom who would then make him a delicious berry pie.
One day, the little boy was out in the forest picking berries when a big bear stood up out of the berry bushes and said,
“Who is this picking my delicious berries?”
And the little boy replied,
“It is I Bobby the berry picker!”
Then he pulled out a Browning Automatic Rifle and put 10 slugs into the bear.
The moral of the story is.....
Bears shouldn’t be stirring up shirt in the woods unless they’re packing heat.
And Mom made the little boy a tasty leg of bear to go along with his delicious berry pie and they all lived happily ever after except for the bear.
This is almost September. In the United States we have a silly name for this period, called “autumn”. What happens in the autumn is that bears try to fatten up for the winter, because those who don’t go to the clothes closet to change their coats to those nice white fluffy ones hibernate. I read it on the Internet. They eat anything with calories. Berries are sweet. This isn’t rocket science. And Global Warming has not one damn thing to do with anything. And anyone stupid enough to think that the Grizzes don’t eat salmon is welcome to walk up to one with a dead salmon in hand and test that theory. You go first.
We have a lot of black bears around here this time of year. They eat the fruit on the trees and they love garbage. If they come after me, I will feed them lead.
They are not fishing. They are too hot due to global warming. As soon as they cool off they will go eat berries.
Beats me. You’d have to ask democrats how they do it.
Beats me. You’d have to ask democrats how they do it.Oh she did!
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