Is climate turning polar bears into cannibals? (global warming)

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By Dan Joling
Updated: 8:25 a.m. ET June 13, 2006

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.

The study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 north of Alaska and western Canada, including the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth.

Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and use sea ice for feeding, mating and giving birth.

Polar bears kill each other for population regulation, dominance and reproductive advantage, the study said. Killing for food seems to be less common, said the study's principal author, Steven Amstrup of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center.

I submit that we may also be judged as a collective & in that, we will be found lacking.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Sometimes I loathe the human race.

And I shudder to think at the idea that humans could face a similar fate if/when global warming gets much worse for us and disrupts our food supply. :(

into cannibals!