We really have discussed everything here at some point, haven’t we!
Whatever you do, don’t eat the liver. No matter how hungry you get.
I’m just sayin’
So are you going to tell me or do I have to look up if or what a kanicbird is?
They migrate to Faermane? 80% humans, 10% dwarfs and elfs, 10% “other.” No penguins.
Welcome, OP! Home run on first hit! You’ll do fine here.
Polar bears are so well insulated that it’s difficult for them to shed body heat even at low temperatures. It might be possible for one to overexert itself and retain too much heat under these conditions.
Hmm. Okay. Presumably this remains true no matter where it is, Arctic, Antarctic, even in captivity in a Saudi Arabian menagerie.
I don’t know about the biological side, but introducing alien animals into Antarctica is going to violate several international treaties. Those are just the applicable ones considered part of the Antarctic Treaty system, I’m sure more specific ones from each country with territorial claims would apply.
Plus there’s the dubious legality of acquiring the bears in the first place…although if you get Russian bears, it looks like you’re OK AFAICT.
Come on - an emperor penguin has broken a man’s femur? Do you happen to have a cite for that? I tried googling, but “penguin breaks leg” comes up with nothing but hockey stories.
Polar bears are largely aquatic. They swim long distances because they’d overheat by running even at extremely cold temperatures. They can survive warmer temperatures if they don’t have to exert themselves, probably one reason they find hanging around garbage dumps as an attractive lifestyle.
Aren’t sled dogs banned in Antarctica, for exactly this reason? (ie, penguins have no land preditors, and any feral dog population that appeared might wipe them out.)
Couldn’t we genetically engineer them so that they couldn’t reproduce in the wild? That, or maybe say that only girl sled dogs are legal in Antarctica or something.
That wasn’t the main concern, it’s more because of the risk of seals catching canine distemper and other diseases. That’d do way more damage than the limited predation dogs could achieve (an Emperor penguin may or may not be able to break a femur, but I’m pretty sure they could fuck a dog up, somewhat vicious. I’m just familiar with our Jackass Penguins, and I wouldn’t mess with them, especially if they have babies. If Emperors are on land for dogs to get to, they will have babies. And be in packs of hundreds or thousands)
That, and they’re completely redundant.
Hah, thanks. 
This question has haunted me day and night, I finally had to ask it. But I have many more other questions too!
The question about bear migration was interesting, I haven’t thought about that. As far as I know polar bears can swim even couple of hundred of kilometers to the open sea. They must have quite sophisticated means of navigation. Those system would probably be distrupted on the other side of the Earth and bears might end up lost in sea or run in empty inner parts of region.
“I don’t know about the biological side, but introducing alien animals into Antarctica is going to violate several international treaties. Those are just the applicable ones considered part of the Antarctic Treaty system, I’m sure more specific ones from each country with territorial claims would apply.”
In that case couldn’t one just seat the bears in landing craft and release it in international waters towards Antarctica? If maritime law doesn’t say anything about releasing polar bears then it should be ok. Of course I would be forever remembered as a biggest a**hole in the history, but in legal sense it would be fine.
I was really surprised about the fact mentioned on the other thread someone linked: people have actually released penguins in Arctic region!
Note that there was a quasi-penguin that lived in the Arctic until the mid-19th century: the great auk. Polar bears were definitely observed to hunt great auks while they were still around, so I don’t think they’d have any trouble with penguins.
The coldest parts of Antarctica are in the center of the continent, which is far from the oceans and higher in elevation. Pretty much nothing lives there except for human researchers, and once the polar bears ate those they’d have trouble surviving for long. Around the margins of the continent, where delicious penguins live, the climate is pretty comparable to the Arctic.
What would happen if one of them gets loose and runs across the frozen tundra? Are there scientists that can follow, shooting at him from a helicopter?
They’ll starve and freeze if they head for the interior, there’s nothing there for them.
Is there actually Tundra in the Antarctic? I though Tundra was land with a short growing season.
Swedish scientists?
Nope, there’s also parts of the Treaty System that cover the Southern Ocean.
Nope. No tundra there.