Should we really be passing off such a feral creature as "cute"? It reminds me of those Japanese tourists who get out of their cars on the Banff-Jasper road to take a closeup pic of Big Bambi only to find themselves fatally gored and trampled by a bull Elk. Of the burghers of Vancouver who thought the coyotes were cute and began feeding them only to see these predators turn on their pets and take over their neighbourhoods.
That bear is a magnificent creature, majestic even, the very top of its food chain - but it sure as hell isn't cute which you would discover pretty quickly if you happened to get within ten feet of it.
Fair point -- and perhaps I am too close to see the "cute" elements as being in error. I agree a polar bear is nothing to toy with, especially in the wild. My own thinking is that there is a closer link to at least some animals than we have been culturally trained to acceept. And of course humans are a damn dangerous species in the wild or otherwise. All that said, fiar point.
Oh well James. If man keeps going the way we have been these past two centuries, the polar bear will be in far greater danger from us than we ever were from it. Someday our grandchildren may have to go to zoos or old videos to see them.
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Should we really be passing off such a feral creature as "cute"? It reminds me of those Japanese tourists who get out of their cars on the Banff-Jasper road to take a closeup pic of Big Bambi only to find themselves fatally gored and trampled by a bull Elk. Of the burghers of Vancouver who thought the coyotes were cute and began feeding them only to see these predators turn on their pets and take over their neighbourhoods.
That bear is a magnificent creature, majestic even, the very top of its food chain - but it sure as hell isn't cute which you would discover pretty quickly if you happened to get within ten feet of it.
That is so cute!
Mound,
Fair point -- and perhaps I am too close to see the "cute" elements as being in error. I agree a polar bear is nothing to toy with, especially in the wild. My own thinking is that there is a closer link to at least some animals than we have been culturally trained to acceept. And of course humans are a damn dangerous species in the wild or otherwise. All that said, fiar point.
james
ooops "fair" not "fiar"
Oh well James. If man keeps going the way we have been these past two centuries, the polar bear will be in far greater danger from us than we ever were from it. Someday our grandchildren may have to go to zoos or old videos to see them.
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