Ursus maritimus tyrannus, It's current look is only 10,000 y.o. meaning it was the end of the Pleistocene and global warming that gave them todays' look.
Ain't clarity grand?
Polar Bears, Polar Bears Everywhere
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Ain't clarity grand?
Clarity might be grand. Next you will tell us what you are trying to clarify and what it has to do with sick and dying Polar Bears: with the steep decline in Polar Bear populations.
Grizzlies live right on the ocean from about Toba inlet north. Could be even farther south but that is as far down the coast I have ever seen one on the shoreline.
Why are the geologists at U of Maryland lieing?
Cause they forgot to ask the head cabbage what the real facts are.
Actually we could save a fortune by shutting down all public funded research and just ask the head troll what the facts are.
There were once a small portion of grizzlies that inhabited a part of the western US prairies, but the vast majority of them have and do inhabit forested, mountainous, and higher altitude terrain.
You are taking an exception and speaking of it as if it were the rule.
Whooooooooooooosh! That's the sound of the point flying well above your head. Sure they are adaptable, to a degree. The point was that grizzlies started out as high-altitude, rough terrain animals. And then they migrated, and a few adapted to prairie life. The were not originally prairie animals, as you said. lol
From here: http://www.socc.ca/cms/en/seaIce/pastSeaIce.aspx
I know you don't like graphs, charts, and stuff because you haven't a clue how to read them (and they usually prove you wrong), but give it a try.
So explain further this "red tundra" thing.
Look at the terrain from Toba Inlet north. Those shores are on the edges of mountainous and/or heavily forested regions with very few people inhabiting them.
You are doing the same as Krapatoe and taking an exception and treating it as if it were the rule. Most grizzlies inhabit mountainous, forested areas. They always have.
Anyway, I can't see the population of polar bears dwindling. But I can see them evolving into being smaller bears because they have to adapt to a different lifestyle.
They sure as **** are now mountainous creatures because ranching isn't so great in those regions.
I'd head for the hills too if ranchers and farmers were shooting at me with a fancy schmancy Winchester lever action.
http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2009/ec/En3-4-28-2007E.pdf
I can if you like. I can also tell you why they're red, and I was only there for a few months.
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[FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]The decline of grizzly bear populations during the 19[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]th [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]century was mainly attributed to European exploration and settlement, and the associated introduction of firearms. The population decline on the Prairies was especially severe, aggravated by the eradication of wild bison and the advent of agriculture. Grizzly bears were rarely seen on the Canadian Prairies after 1900. [/FONT][/FONT]
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In 1991, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) designated the Prairie population (delineated by the Prairie Ecozone) as Extirpated (Banci 1991). COSEWIC confirmed the extirpated status of the Prairie population in 2002 (COSEWIC 2002), and it was officially listed under the [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]Species at Risk Act [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]in June 2003. [/FONT][/FONT]
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Yep. Me, too. The point is that they did not originate as a prairie bear and the majority still aren't a prairie bear.
They were an everywhere bear.There are still plenty of blacks and browns on the prairie and they looooooooove oats.
One of the benefits of being an adaptable omnivore.
Arctic Willow turns bright red in the late summer. To better help it gather as much of the suns waining warmth as it can.
It literally covers acres and acres.
Attaboy. Keep ignoring the facts.
... is getting food where you can find it. Eventually polars will adapt to eating more vegetation and possibly less meat. Yeah.
Ah. Thanks. Never did venture that far north in the fall
Why do they wander and graze the alpine meadows in preference to hunting for meat at lower ranges? Because they came from Siberia? Sure it wasn't the Gobi?
The Gobi Bear. Isn't standing one of the things that define the Griz?
More grazers....
Go ask one.
I doubt it.
Yep.
Black bears stand, grizzlies stand, Tibetan bears stand, Kermode bears stand, polar bears stand, Kodiaks stand, etc. Just full of red herrings and strawman arguments aren'tcha?
The Gobi Bear. Isn't standing one of the things that define the Griz?
Funny. I don't see them eating anything. Thjey look like they are changing location to me.More grazers....