Miss Langenberger is a Germany based photographer and she posted the photo of the horribly thin polar bear on Facebook last month and from there it went viral, till date it has been shared 41,000 times.
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Pictures of a horribly thin polar bear have emerged, sparking a debate over global warming. “I do not have scientific data to prove my observations, but I have eyes to see – and a brain to draw conclusions”. The females, however, which den on land to present beginning to their younger, are sometimes slim. This can be because they have an injury (as may be the case with the polar bear in the photo) or because the animal is old and has lost some of its canines, she said.
But while the general consensus is that climate change is destroying our planet, this photo isn’t necessarily evidence of that.
“With the pack ice retreating further and further north every year, they (female bears) tend to be stuck on land where there’s not much food”. And I realised that the fat bears are nearly exclusively males which stay on the pack ice all year long.
Whereas there are some viable nutrient sources obtainable on land, reminiscent of hen eggs these aren’t current within the quantities that may maintain polar bear populations yr spherical, Rode defined. [In Images: Polar Bears’ Shifting Diet].
Last summer I traveled with a group of friends to Svalbard, Norway in search of polar bears. As climate change and global warming continue to progress, however, they risk losing this hunting ground of theirs. Sure, I’ve seen bears in fine condition – however I’ve additionally seen lifeless and ravenous polar bears. Properly, right here comes my query: how can a inhabitants be secure if it consists of much less and fewer females and cubs? It is the region wherein tourists generally visit to see polar bears in their natural habitat.
“As someone who spent 14 consecutive seasons out on the sea ice, and who has focused on Arctic work for nearly 20 years now, it was rare to see reports of dead bears in the wild in the ’80s and ’90s”, he added. Only once I have seen a mother with a nearly independent cub.
‘A difficulty hunting could be involved…I don’t think you can tie that one to starvation because of lack of sea ice’. On this occasion, however, we didn’t find any sea ice and we never found any bears alive. The polar bear was spotted by Langenberger on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard.
“In all my years of growing up in the Arctic and later, working as a biologist, I have never found a dead polar bear”, he said. These bears were so skinny, they appeared to have died of starvation, as in the absence of sea ice, they were not able to hunt seals.
Some researchers say that malnourished animals are a common sight in many populations.
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She said everyone can do something to stop or slow down the effects of climate change.
