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pipoman

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36. They aren't endangered.

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 09:08 AM

Mar 2013

They were placed on the threatened list not because of declining numbers, but because of the possible long term effects of global warming on their habitat. Native American subsistence hunters are allowed to hunt them as they have for millennia (as in this case)...and as they should be..they are not trading in polar bear products, they are using the bears for human survival in desperate climate conditions..

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Hunter carries orphaned polar bear cub home on snowmachine [View all] Arctic Dave Mar 2013 OP

Cool, the cub can grow up so that Tazruk can kill it. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #1

yes, otherwise they wouldn't have killed it. And the man said it was too bad it was a momma bear KittyWampus Mar 2013 #3

Cute Kitty. I grew up in a farmer hunter community of 2000. Nobody shot a bear because Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #6

I tried bear meat once up in Humboldt County, CA. Webster Green Mar 2013 #30

Yes, they do eat them. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #4

Well there you go. They saved the cub so the cub can grow into a big bear Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #8

Who knows, maybe the bear will grow up to eat the hunter. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #10

True. And that happens ALL the time. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #12

People are mauled every year in Alaska. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #14

Oddly enough, As a San Franciscan, I am good friends with 5 people who grew Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #15

That is probably a correct percentage. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #16

Given my sense of humor, I'd prefer pig death over bear death... Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #24

I would think the Death by Pig would be a little more painful. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #25

Hmmm. I'm wondering. Do pigs, due to the lack of killing tools... Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #29

I think it goes something like this. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #32

Glad hunters took time to bring cub back. KittyWampus Mar 2013 #2

Yeah. It was unfortunate but he did the right thing by Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #5

Is it better to die young and free or old and captive? pipoman Mar 2013 #7

Either way you're dead. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #9

One just takes much longer..do captive polar bears have quality of life? pipoman Mar 2013 #18

The same question could be asked for you and I. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #22

I keep my daughter healthy. She's 23 years old and I've never let her outside. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #26

Awesome. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #31

Twice a day, I take my domesticated polar bear and daughter Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #33

An assortment of fun for both of them. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #34

zoos have their purposes too liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #23

Starvation is no way to die liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #11

Yep. Being shot is dignified. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #13

Neither is years of torturous treatment by humans.. pipoman Mar 2013 #20

he killed the little cub bear's momma but at least there was a happy ending. bubbayugga Mar 2013 #17

Happy ending for who? Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #19

did you miss the six sarcasm tags? bubbayugga Mar 2013 #27

Actually I suspect Arctic Dave pipoman Mar 2013 #38

It is nature at it's base.. pipoman Mar 2013 #21

It's wrong. Nobody should have legal right to shoot endangered species. bubbayugga Mar 2013 #28

They aren't endangered. pipoman Mar 2013 #36

Polar bears are in serious danger of going extinct due to global warming bubbayugga Mar 2013 #40

There is a distinction between "threatened" and "endangered".. pipoman Mar 2013 #41

"...in serious danger of going extinct" bubbayugga Mar 2013 #42

Indigenous people pipoman Mar 2013 #43

James Tazruk is a piece of shit. Boudica the Lyoness Mar 2013 #35

LOL pipoman Mar 2013 #37

I'm glad you are a vegetarian. Arctic Dave Mar 2013 #39