Hungry polar bears eat young due to shrinking sea ice

Sounds like the natural process of killing the cubs of nursing mothers, so they will go into heat again is alive and well in the north.

Would you please keep your logic out of this and blame it on Global Warming? Please!

Yes the bears are having a tough time in the north , as the world contiunes to change.

The Global Warming freaks are sure piling it on thick before Copenhagen.

How can you tell?

Adult males killing young of their species isn�t unknown among animals, especially bears. But in most cases it happens in the spring so the male can then impregnate the sow he has left without cubs.

The timing of the recent killings suggests hunger may be the motivation.

They should come here. Plenty of food, plenty of bears. Well, blacks that is, no polars. YET

Adult males killing young of their species isn�t unknown among animals, especially bears. But in most cases it happens in the spring so the male can then impregnate the sow he has left without cubs.

Thats true for most bears, but Polar bears have a different cycle. Their cubs are being born right now. Not in Jan. or Feb. like a black bear.

Polar bear cubs are born November through January in a den. Mother and cubs emerge from their den in late March or April. Since the female dens many miles away from the coast I can't see the males predating on new born cubs which only weigh a couple of pounds. Stirling said between 2004 and 2006, he and other researchers found evidence of cannibalism in the carcasses of three adult females and one yearling.

�Killed, simply to be eaten.�

Nick Lunn, another Environment Canada scientist who�s spent decades studying the bears of Wapusk National Park near Churchill, said he saw polar bears eating other polar bear carcasses four times this fall. He couldn�t confirm the bears killed their meal themselves.

Bill Watkins, a zoologist with Manitoba Conservation, reports he hears about one or two cases of cannibalism a year. He said it�s possible more cases have been seen this year because more tourists are on the land

And yeah a new born would just be a snack, but unless I'm missing it some where they aren't saying how old the cubs are.

We're not going to agree, but I got chicken wings to cook for tomorrow. If we keep going we're going to repost the whole story here.

The bald-faced fraud by Ian Stirling in that article is flat out shameful. Brazen and shameful.

Polar bear infanticide, and cannibalism is a well known phenomena amongst those who study the animal, and has been reported in studies since at least 1972; long before sciency-tists were feigning worry about melting sea ice. Stirling knows this damn well. He wrote about it in 92.

http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic52-3-307.pdf

But to read that article and the way Stirling talks about the subject you'd swear this Polar Bear cannibalism thing is something new, right.

Shame on you Ian Stirling.

He's not the only polar bear scientist enjoying the big fat greenbacks from the global warming research smorgasbord though.

Check out this one on how Mitchell Taylor, one of the foremost field researchers in the polar bear biz was ostracized from the community for refusing to sell science down the river, and join the party under the money tree.

Exile for Non-believers

More bollocks from the GW facists.