A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to protect his wife in a northern First Nations community in Canada is expected to fully recover from the severe injuries he sustained in the attack.
But experts caution that changing environmental conditions will lead to a shift in where and when polar bears are spotted, increasing the risk of surprise encounters.
An alternative explanation is that the polar bear population is so large that in order not to starve members of it need to expand beyond traditional territory. That’s also quite possibly the true explanation.
But they’re not going to discuss that even to reject it, are they? Must be climate change…..
’Police responded to reports of gunshots…’
They didn’t respond to reports of an apex predator loose in someone’s front garden then?
Al his fault for making his missus dress up like a seal.
But experts caution that changing environmental conditions will lead to a shift in where and when polar bears are spotted, increasing the risk of surprise encounters.
A polar bear could be in your house right now, thanks to Climate Change™!
The bear lunged at the woman, who “slipped to [the] ground as her husband leapt on to the animal to prevent its attack”, the Nishnawbe Aski police service said in a news release.
Very heteropatriarchal of the woman.
If global warming is real, then why are the polar bears moving south to the populated areas?
“But they’re not going to discuss that even to reject it, are they? Must be climate change…..”
Could be Brexit. Or the Far Right. Was the bear carrying a placard or posting on social media?
The bear was white. Says it all.
Now we know where the manly men are – among the Esquimaux.
I seem to recall that, in 1960, the polar bear population was estimated to be around 10,000.
More recently, the creatures were counted at 25,000, so it may be no surprise that their range has widened.
But, you know, warble gloaming…
Fort Severn First Nation, Ontario, Canada.
A region that is very specifically classed as part of the Arctic Region.
Which, I could be mistaken of course, is a place where you can, you know, expect polar bears to have a gander.
Especially with a couple of Natural Reserves with lots of islands and bays featuring stuff like whales, seals, and other prey animals within 150 miles. Which to a polar bear is a mere three day’s stroll…
But hey…. Must Be Climate Change.
Just last week my eye doctor (eight week wait, not bad?) told me I wouldn’t overdose on vitamin A unless I ate an entire Polar Bear’s liver. I said that was unlikely in Lincolnshire. Did I speak too soon?
“War Above 80 Degrees North” has a number of tales of wartime Arctic types in extremis eating polar bear: and all the horrible parasites you catch as a result. Trychio-something.
It’s OK if you boil it for hours, supposedly.
Did she choose the bear?
Nothing wrong with polar bear meat (except the liver, maybe).
Story told by an old colleague in Norwegian sector.
In the 80s there was an organised race to the North Pole. Erik and two friends set off but as they were approaching the Pole one of them fell through a crevasse in very broken up “terrain” and broke his leg.
So they had to sledge back to where a plane could land to medivac him. On the way they found a juvenile polar bear, obviously lost because bears don’t get that far out on the ice as there’s nothing to hunt.
The bear wouldn’t be frightened off so they shot it.
Figuring supplies might get low because they’d lost three days they cooked and ate some of the bear.
They still made it to the Pole in first or second or maybe third place, I forget.
Hearing the story a certain three barrelled English toff complained to the organisers that their journey wasn’t “autonomous” because they had been supplied with extra food, i.e. the polar bear.
The English toff managed to get them disqualified and himself on the podium.
Reports of apex predators are common enough in some areas that unless they are causing a nuisance there won’t be any response other than leave them alone.
We have a bear that wanders down the creek outside our place at least once a week in the summer and occasionally has a little wander around our yard and carport, main issue is keep the recycling all tucked away and be careful taking the dogs out