I get tired having to do the research and thinking for people like you who only "know" what they're told. Try getting off your ass and doing some real research instead of wasting my time with your petty uninformed arguments. For instance, on the polar bear issue, you could do the slightest bit of research. This would lead you to Dr Andrew Deroacher who is quite possibly the world's foremost authority on polar bears. In 2002 he published "Diet composition of polar bears in Svalbard and the western Barents Sea." In the abstract he wrote (emphasis added for weak minds that are incapable of picking out salient points):"We estimated both the numerical and biomasscomposition of the prey of polar bears (Ursus maritimus)from 135 opportunistic observations of kills IN SVALBARDAND THE WESTERN BARENTS SEA collected from March toOctober 1984?2001. BY NUMBER, the prey compositionwas dominated by ringed seals (Phoca hispida) (63%),followed by bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) (13%),harp seals (P. groenlandica) (8%) and unknown species(16%). HOWEVER, WHEN KNOWN PREY WERE CONVERTED TOBIOMASS, THE COMPOSITION WAS DOMINATED BY BEARDEDSEALS (55%), followed by ringed seals (30%) and harpseals (15%). Results indicated that bearded seals are animportant dietary item for polar bears IN THE WESTERNBARENTS SEA. WE BELIEVE THAT DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF SPACE MAY RESULT IN GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF DIET WITHIN THE SAME POPULATION."<a class="user" href="http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/andrew_derocher/uploads/abstracts/Derocher_et_al_2003a.pdf">http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/andrew_dero ...</a>To put this in perspective, it'd be like saying your primary diet is french fries because you eat sixty of them for every hamburger you eat. Also, it'd be the equivalent of saying that every human on the planet subsists on a diet of french fries and hamburgers, with an occasional granola bar thrown in. Fortunately, Deroacher actually understands English and makes it very clear that his research only applies definitively to populations in that part of the arctic by Norway. (It should be noted that there are few alternatives to seals in those areas, so naturally they'd eat seal instead of, say, caribou that don't exist there.)Now, will you kindly stop following me around and pestering me with your banal and uniformed interjections of stupidity? I'm still waiting for you to comprehend the word "colligative".
vikingcoderOct 1, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0004/polar2.html">http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_fe ...</a>Polar bears live along shores and on sea ice in the icy cold Arctic. When sea ice forms over the ocean in cold weather, many polar bears, except pregnant females, head out onto the ice to hunt seals.
vikingcoderOct 1, 2007
There is more than one type of seal. Northern fur seals are located in the Northern Pacific, not the Arctic.Polar bears primarily eat ringed seals and bearded seals.<a class="user" href="http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/pbdiet.html">http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/pbdie ...</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_seal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_seal</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_seal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_seal</a>
impellerOct 1, 2007
I don't think reposting was as stupid as your comment....
macppcOct 1, 2007
Giraffes are mute BTW
hammerattackOct 2, 2007
I get tired having to do the research and thinking for people like you who only "know" what they're told. Try getting off your ass and doing some real research instead of wasting my time with your petty uninformed arguments. For instance, on the polar bear issue, you could do the slightest bit of research. This would lead you to Dr Andrew Deroacher who is quite possibly the world's foremost authority on polar bears. In 2002 he published "Diet composition of polar bears in Svalbard and the western Barents Sea." In the abstract he wrote (emphasis added for weak minds that are incapable of picking out salient points):"We estimated both the numerical and biomasscomposition of the prey of polar bears (Ursus maritimus)from 135 opportunistic observations of kills IN SVALBARDAND THE WESTERN BARENTS SEA collected from March toOctober 1984?2001. BY NUMBER, the prey compositionwas dominated by ringed seals (Phoca hispida) (63%),followed by bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) (13%),harp seals (P. groenlandica) (8%) and unknown species(16%). HOWEVER, WHEN KNOWN PREY WERE CONVERTED TOBIOMASS, THE COMPOSITION WAS DOMINATED BY BEARDEDSEALS (55%), followed by ringed seals (30%) and harpseals (15%). Results indicated that bearded seals are animportant dietary item for polar bears IN THE WESTERNBARENTS SEA. WE BELIEVE THAT DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF SPACE MAY RESULT IN GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF DIET WITHIN THE SAME POPULATION."<a class="user" href="http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/andrew_derocher/uploads/abstracts/Derocher_et_al_2003a.pdf">http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/andrew_dero ...</a>To put this in perspective, it'd be like saying your primary diet is french fries because you eat sixty of them for every hamburger you eat. Also, it'd be the equivalent of saying that every human on the planet subsists on a diet of french fries and hamburgers, with an occasional granola bar thrown in. Fortunately, Deroacher actually understands English and makes it very clear that his research only applies definitively to populations in that part of the arctic by Norway. (It should be noted that there are few alternatives to seals in those areas, so naturally they'd eat seal instead of, say, caribou that don't exist there.)Now, will you kindly stop following me around and pestering me with your banal and uniformed interjections of stupidity? I'm still waiting for you to comprehend the word "colligative".
jcainoOct 4, 2007
touche.