So do you STILL think that polar bears are NOT an endangered species, you idiotic neo-Christian cunt? News flash—they’re fucking EATING EACH OTHER!!! Sorry for screaming, but I’m really close to tears right now. And I’m not being histrionic—this is really making my lower lip quiver.
Not having sound, since I’m at work, how exactly is polar bears eating each other evidence that they are endangered?
They normally have prey that they can get at and eat.
I’m not trying to be a bitch here, but couldn’t that indicate that polar bear *prey *is endangered? Or that polar bear populations are too large, making food a relative scarcity? I don’t know nothin’ bout polar bears, for all I know there’s 3 left in the whole world. I’m just not understanding the OP’s evidence.
You’re correct WhyNot. Alone it’s pretty much just a cum hoc argument.
However, formulated fully: polar bears require a certain temperature and a certain amount of ice in order to hunt properly. As the ice has been melting more and more, the bears have been having to swim insane distances, and often are unable to catch preferred prey types, if they catch any prey at all. Their prey species may also be declining in numbers, but the bears have turned to cannibalism, in part, because they simply can’t get at the food. This is a good resource.
While that’s pretty fucked up, it doesn’t like any sort of evidence that the polar bears themselves are endangered, as you note.
a bit of googling later
No, polar bears aren’t endangered. At best, they’re “threatened”, and some polar bear communities are actually increasing, and hunting is, at this point in time, not a threat to the polar bear population. I got all this from a pro-polar bear, pro-conservation site.
On preview: Thanks FinnAgain. Looks like it’s not tea and roses, and we should definitely Do Something about that, but the OP* is* histrionic.
I’ll admit that I had a minor brain fart and missed the word “species” in the OP after “endangered”. They’re certainly in danger, and things suck for them, and the fact that they’ve taken to eating one another is Some Bad Shit. But they’re not an official Endangered Species.
Then again, there have also been arguments (admittedly, I haven’t researched them) that at least in America the bears’ legal definition has been held hostage to political concerns as an ES in some areas would limit oil drilling. I’ve been over-saturated with Bush news during the last few years and, as my outrage meter redlined, exploded and vaporized itself years ago, I’ve taken to just ignoring news about Bush. Most of the claims made about the politicization of the bears’ situation heap blame directly or indirectly on Bush’s feet, and being outraged by his handling of polar bears is a hill too far, for me at least.
YMMV.
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They’re not an endangered species.
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Researchers have known about polar bear cannibalism for a long time.
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“Nature, red in tooth and claw.” If you cry over that, I imagine you’re bawling over the defenseless gazelle hunted by those mean feline predators.
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Since this is the Pit, I think you’re a giant fucking retard to slam Palin for claiming polar bears aren’t an endangered species when they are not, in truth, actually an endangered species. And I have very little doubt that rather than apologize for the error, you will have some self-righteous justification for your error. So if Palin had been wrong, SHE would have been an “idiotic neo-Christian cunt.” Now that you’re the one that’s wrong, I bet the characterization of the error will be considerably less vitriolic.
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Won’t it?
I’m not sure whether Washoe understands the difference between an Endangered Species and a species that is endangered. Polar bears are definitely the latter but not the former. I have no idea what Palin said on the matter.
Polar bears have been known for cannibalism for a long time. The Arctic is too tough an environment to let good meat go to waste. I remember a TV program a decade or more ago which showed a mother bear shepherding her cubs to safety from a male polar bear, except that one cub succumbed to the cold and had to be left. The male polar bear tucked in.
See here for an academic report of another case of polar bear cannibalism.
Edit: hah! I see Bricker beat me to the same cite. His post wan’t there when I started.
How come Republican and Christian women get called ‘cunts’ around here all the time and nobody calls it sexist?
I saw another online video of lesbians eating each other.
Are they endangered?
Because plenty of Republican and Christian men get called “dicks” around here?
There sure seem to be a lot less of them since I graduated college…
We’ve reclaimed the word- vagina, from the Latin for sheath, implies that the cunt is nothing more than a place to put a penis.
God I hope not.:eek:
Aren’t we allowed to forget about Sarah Palin now?
People of all stripes get called cunts around here. How come you only notice it when it’s directed at a Republican or a Christian woman?
No. You can turn the video back on now. And, ummmm… what was that address…?
Good question. We can only consider the source.