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.
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“Bears eat whatever is at hand. They don’t give a damn. Heck they will even eat bells and pepper spray and North Face Jackets.
Best hilarious post of the day! “
And a set of Prius car keys.
Oh the Prius, the car that looks like it was made out of the nutsack of its owner.
If only some of the climate change warriors would go up North and teach the polar bears how to swim!
What a crock! Bears have always eaten berries when they are available. They will eat salmon when they start their upriver run. They will also eat people under certain circumstances. That is why people in Alaska tend to carry rifles that make the 30-06 look small-bore.
I guess that makes them omnivores - and global climate change is the cause......ergo, global climate change was happening since Creation....but we need to stop it .....NOW!
Omnivore
The horror...Griz are eating dessert before the entree. Tax us trillions! We must stop this uncouth bearish behavior!
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