It’s unknown how long the underweight cub was by herself without food, or what actually happened to her mother and sibling. One thing that’s unlikely is that a subsistence hunter from the nearest community — the Inupiat Eskimo village of Nuiqsut — shot the mother. Only Alaska Natives are allowed to hunt polar bears, and they are required to report their subsistence harvest to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Agency biologists contacted the village and learned that no locals have taken a polar bear recently.
There are several possible scenarios that could have led to abandonment. The mother might have been in poor condition and unable to care for the cubs. Or the cub might have gotten separated from her mother in a storm, or if the mother was trying to protect the cub from an adult male bear. The mother and the other cub could be dead or alive.
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Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Oh, those bad bad oilmen
Gore should be happy!! I’ll see if he posts this on his site
Bears of all kinds are LAND SHARKS and are NOT our friends, we are their lunch, their dinner, their afternoon snack, as the linked videos show.
Bears eat humans.
“Polar Bears have survived for a very long time through multiple ice ages and the warm periods MUCH warmer than now in between. Leave them alone. Move them, don’t shoot them, when they dig into garbage and they’ll be fine.”
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/07/05/the-only-way-to-save-the-polar-bears-is-to-send-us-money-wwf-tv-advertisement
A weak sickly cub would have been abandoned by its mother. In the wilderness it is survival of the fittest and child services does not exist nor does welfare!