In an article on Foxnews.com , there is an article saying that polar bears balls are shrinking. Okay, I am not questioning whether are not this is true, and I really do not care (just glad mine are not shrinking).
There are a lot of studies on a lot of things, a lot of them having no real significance. Maybe this one does (polar bear population, global warming, etc.), but my question is this:
Who funds this stuff?
Who decides what and how to fund which studies?
Now that’s got to be on the world’s most dangerous jobs list.
“Johnson, go measure that polar bear’s balls!”
mmmm, polar bear balls.
All right, now where’s that Eskimo woman I’m supposed to wrestle?
The research in question was done by Christian Sonne, of the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark. Undoubtedly it was funded by the Danish government.
The basis of the research was preserved specimens of polar bear genitalia obtained from bears killed by subsistence hunters in Greenland, which is administered by Denmark. It was not a specific program to go out and measure polar bear genitals. This is most likely only a small part of the data obtained from study of the polar bear specimens, which probably included other organs besides genitalia.
I am sure similar studies are carried out by US agencies such as Fish and Wildlife and perhaps the EPA on other species, and perhaps also include polar bears. Studies of the impact of pollutants on endangered wildlife or on game species, and particularly their reproduction, would seem to be part of the basic mission of such government agencies. Why would you find it surprising that such studies would be funded?
Maybe that’s because so few of them know how to dance.
Wow, I need to start stepping back and thinking outside the box. I would have saved the time spent starting this thread.
If you jumped into arctic water I’m sure you would experiance some shrinkage too.
