Polar bear cubs play on the skinny ice that supposedly threatens them with extinction
From Polar Bear Science
Posted on December 21, 2019 |
This video tweet deserves a publish of its personal: two comparatively inexperienced cubs-of-the-year in Russia intentionally break via skinny ice, fall into the icy water and crawl again out – again and again, for enjoyable, as their mom watches within the background. Play is a technique animals be taught vital survival classes and for polar bears, that is one in every of them:
Bear cubs mess around on ice in Russia pic.twitter.com/RhMfpV0JFJ
— RT (@RT_com) December 20, 2019
Skinny ice was a pure element of the Arctic lengthy earlier than polar bears advanced to stay there: it’s nothing new however coping with it requires a technique that cubs should be taught.
Right here it’s damaged down as stills: one fats, Chukchi Sea cub intentionally pounces on the ice to interrupt it:
Each crawl out of the icy water:
Each safely crawling over the skinny ice:
Evaluate the above video to the images and movie clips under meant to frighten everybody (together with young children) in regards to the plight of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay, from the UK Mirror earlier this 12 months (13 November 2019) “Exhausted polar bears cling to life on thawing ice as they face extinction: These are the determined polar bears scrambling for survival on Arctic sea ice shrinking beneath their very paws as local weather change takes its toll“:
“Polar bears are threatened with being worn out by local weather change” Mirror, 13 Nov 2019. James Breeden photograph
Propaganda-style photograph distributed by USGS, taken by US Coast Guard in August 2009:
Additionally from 2009, is a video from the BBC, referred to as “Polar Bear on Skinny Ice – Nature’s Nice Occasions: The Nice Soften – BBC One” (10 Feb 2009), which I consider was additionally used as fund-raising propaganda by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF):
A 2015 pictorial within the Every day Mail (27 December) reveals, via a sequence of images taken by a crewmember of a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, how a giant grownup male in Alaska used the identical technique for coping with skinny ice as this 12 months’s Russian cub:
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