barbaric canadians

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Wezil


Are we reading the same thread?

I was going to ask you the same thing.


Let's count how many macho and patriotic comments have been made by those who defend it;

I clubbed some during my lunchbreak, just like any good Canadian would.

Hey, you guys play lots of Football, we club seals.

Canadians: Lumberjacks with axe playing a full-contact sport that has real fights
Americans: Top hats and suits playing a game with way too much protection and no fighting

Canadians: Club baby seals
Americans: Club baby Iraqis

See what happens when hockey gets canceled?

Pansy Euros who can't stand the sight of a few seals being clubbed to death

What the **** do you know about wildlife? You're from Belgium.

Yup. Mass slaughter that I can get behind

I probably missed a few.

[The Mad Monk]

Polar bears are omnivorous, but feed chiefly on marine animals such as seals and young walruses. Quite fearless, they will stalk any animal, including humans. They take advantage of carcasses left by hunters, and in summer eat vegetation on the shore. If food is scarce, their physiology can slow to a state known as walking hibernation.

http://www.answers.com/topic/polar-bear

The Polar Bear:
The polar bear is the most deadly of all. While his normal food is seal, they have been known, for centuries, to attack humans. Until the introduction of firearms, the native people of the north have lived in fear of them. Many early explorers have told horror stories of polar bear attacks. These bears are known to stalk and hunt humans. If you are in polar bear country carry a firearm or avoid the area.

http://www.arcticwebsite.com/BearSurvival.html

The number 675-2327 is the most important telephone number in Churchill. Every one of the 1000 citizens has memorized this number. But also a lot of the tourists know this number – after all, it is often written on many of the warning signs in and around this little town on the shores of Hudson Bay. The telephone line is manned 24 hours a day. It is more important than the police, rescue or fire department numbers. See, 675-2327 is the number of the Polar Bear Police – the only one of its kind in Churchill, Manitoba in the northeastern part of Canada.

Churchhill is the polar bear capital. Every November the citizens of Churchill have to share their living space with about 200 polar bears. This can, at times, be dangerous. Despite their lovable and playful appearance, polar bears are considered to be one of the most dangerous predators on earth. They are quick, strong and unpredictable, and they will attack without warning.

...

Polar Bear alert: "Stop, don't walk any further!" Denise, our guide, warns me as I stand beside the polar bear alert sign to take a picture. The sign is at the edge of town in front of a large rock. Behind the rock is the slowly-freezing bay. "This is not a good idea," she says as she pulls me back. She personally has seen a polar bear behind this rock twice.

What does one do in that situation, I ask? Take off your clothes and walk slowly backward, she says. Bears are naturally very curious. They inspect every article of clothing you lay down. Just don't run, and never look the bears in the eyes. This antagonizes them. It is better to make your way freezing to the next house. Because of this, all houses in Churchill are expected to remain unlocked.

But, as I try to get into my hotel, the Aurora Inn, I find the back door locked! What happens if a bear shows up now, I wonder? "Oh, he was here yesterday," says Gavin Lawrie, the proprietor, as he tries to calm me down. And, sure enough, right in front of our window are bear tracks. Very big tracks, the size of two or three human palm prints. A polar bear can be 2 1/2 to 3 meters long and up to 600 kilograms.

http://travelingtoday.com/resources/articles/polarbears.htm

[Spec]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk


I'm pretty sure Space05us has said different.

Oh and Space05us is a polar bear expert?

http://yarchive.net/med/polar_bears.html

Why would a Polar bear bother to hunt humans in preference, say, to its normal fare, the seal. The Polar bear eats the blubber and skin and leaves the meat (which is scavenged by the Arctic fox, in areas ot too far from shore).

Since we humans are poorly furnished with blubber, we would not be the olar bear's meal of choice, except where no alternative is available.

How many polar bears do you really think have eaten enough people to ave learned to have a preference? Come on. Polar bears are rogrammed to eat any meat that moves and they can catch.

Polar bears hang around human habitations (as in Churchill, Manitoba) aiting for the sea ice to freeze so they can go back to seal hunting. At that point, they have not eaten for the best part of a year -- part of their natural cycle. So if they come across a human where he houldn't be risking himself, it's not surprising that they would eat im. Does that make the Polar bear an "incorrigible man hunter"?I don't think so!

ACTIVELY hunt humans........right.

Spec.

[Asher]

I'm well aware of how dangerous they are.

It's one reason they were hunted...wasn't just for furs, it was because they're extremely dangerous.

Plus they don't seem to breed in captivity, so it's extremely difficult to magically "reintroduce them" with enough volume to keep the seal population in check.

And in any case, I assure you death by a quick blow to the head is more humane than being mauled by a 600kg beast.

[Spec]

Mad Monk, your last Quotes are UTTER BS. Polar bears dont kill people first, it's a last resort, like lions and tigers do. There is no fat on most humans and is not sufficent for polar bears. We are it's last resort.

Let a polar bear eat humans only and it will die soon enough.

Spec.

[Wezil]

Ludd - Umm, you quoted the Canadians and the quotes supported my point. For the most part (of course not exclusively) Canadians are far more comfortable with the hunt than non-canadians.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
Oh and Space05us is a polar bear expert?

http://yarchive.net/med/polar_bears.html

He lives at the very northern tip of Alaska, you live in Montreal...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
Mad Monk, your last Quotes are UTTER BS. Polar bears dont kill people first, it's a last resort, like lions and tigers do. There is no fat on most humans and is not sufficent for polar bears. We are it's last resort.

Let a polar bear eat humans only and it will die soon enough.

Spec.

Talk about being a hypocrite.

We're not the #1 choice for Lions and Tigers either.

People in Montreal should really not discuss wildlife.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Wezil
Ludd - Umm, you quoted the Canadians and the quotes supported my point. For the most part (of course not exclusively) Canadians are far more comfortable with the hunt than non-canadians.

Maybe you should read my posts again.

Any difference you see is either completely imaginarey or only due to Canadian Jingos.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Asher

Talk about being a hypocrite.

People in Montreal should really not discuss wildlife.

Says the Torontonian.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Asher


Plus they don't seem to breed in captivity, so it's extremely difficult to magically "reintroduce them" with enough volume to keep the seal population in check.

Actually, polar bears dont breed in captivity. They found 2 orphin polar bears which their mom died and the babies were sent to a zoo in Colorado (IIRC) and they managed to keep them alive. That was in 2001 (again IIRC) It was the first time they managed to do that and ran in to hundreds of problems with their heatlh majorly because the mixture in their food was no sufficient in fat and specific vitamins needed. It was all trial and error form the start to the end. While one bear was getting better the other one was slowing down and vice versa.
They found that when they added a specific amount of seal fat to the "milk" mixture the bones started to grow normally and the heart beat became normal.

Now the polar bears are living heatly lives in another Zoo.

So no, human flesh is not food that can sustain a polar bear's life. We're just a side dish or a fill up until it finds real food.

Spec.

[Asher]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Says the Torontonian.

I'm from Calgary.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
Actually, polar bears dont breed in captivity.

That's what I said...

[Spec]

Originally posted by Asher



Talk about being a hypocrite.

We're not the #1 choice for Lions and Tigers either.

People in Montreal should really not discuss wildlife.

That was exactly my point if you read right.


Spec.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Asher

I'm from Calgary.

I thought you where from California.