YouTube - Inconvenient video: 2007 - With no ice in sight, a polar bear is seen stampeding walruses and large number of healthy polar bears are seen feasting on walruses when they might be expected to starve
The Associated Press: Trampling [and maybe global warming] blamed for Alaska walrus deaths
[The beach is covered with polar bears, walrus meat and bones. When people claim that polar bears can't feed without ice, show them this video.]YouTube - Here's a polar bear (on ice) successfully taking on a bull walrus
The Associated Press: Trampling [and maybe global warming] blamed for Alaska walrus deaths
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Trampling likely killed 131 mostly young walruses forced onto the northwest coast of Alaska by a loss of sea ice, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.WWF propaganda here: Dramatic Footage of Walruses in Alaskan & Russian Arctic Highlights Threats from Climate Change
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Young animals can be hurt in stampedes when a herd is startled by a polar bear, human hunters or even a low-flying airplane. With no human witnesses, biologists said the deaths may have been from "disturbances" that led to trampling.
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Biologists who examined the Alaska carcasses were protected by armed guards standing watch for polar bears.
"It was definitely crisscrossed with bear tracks all over the place," said biologist Jill Prewitt of the Alaska SeaLife Center.
York noted that large concentrations of walruses on land can also attract polar bears and lead to increased human-bear conflict. WWF is working with local communities across the Arctic coast to mitigate such conflicts and share information with communities on how to deal with the significantly increasing numbers of walruses and polar bears on land.More on walrus stampedes here
Also, if polar bear numbers are so threatened by global warming, what are 185 of them doing within six miles of the village?
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