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  • Bear and her cub came to close

    Bear and her cub came to close

    The bear and her cub shot in Greenland

    A polar bear and a cub were shot in the town of Kangaatsiaq in Greenland yesterday. The pair had been circling the town for a few days.

    The people had tried to drive them away but when they came close to the town they saw no other option but to shoot.

    The mother had been swimming in the fjord with her cub on the back, like this video shows.

    After the pair went in the town shots were fired in the air but unfortunately that did not scare them away.

    “We had to shoot them both. The cub would not have survived without his mother,” Peter Løvstrøm from the department of hunting and fishing in Greenland said.

    “The meat will be distributed to the community’s institutions but the skin and everything else will be analyzed by the government,” Løvstrøm said. Those means are typical for such circumstances.

    Source:

    KNR

  • Polar bear eating own cub pictured

    Polar bear eating own cub pictured

    polar bear cub

    Pictures of a polar bear dragging its own cub after killing it has shook many. The telling pictures by nature photographer Jenny Ross were published yesterday.

    She took the pictures in Svalbard but polar bears are known to kill their cubs for food if everything else fails.

    The actions are not common and have not been filmed often.

    “This type of intraspecific predation has always occurred to some extent. However, there are increasing numbers of observations of it occurring, particularly on land where polar bears are trapped ashore, completely food-deprived for extended periods of time due to the loss of sea ice as a result of climate change,” she told BBC News.

    Jenny was on a boat with here telephoto lens but did not realize the bear hd its cub until she was close.

    “As soon as the adult male became aware that a boat was approaching him, he basically stood to attention – he straddled the young bear’s body, asserting control over it and conveying ‘this is my food’,” she said.

    Source: BBC

    See also: Jenny Ross’s website.