favourite animal??

[altair4]

Polar Beer!!

they're adorable!!

[Jason]

Is that non-alcoholic polar beers, or your regular beers?

[altair4]

ha!! good one! sorry that was not intentional

I meant Polar Bear!!...the fury kind

[LunarOrbit]

Enjoy 'em while they're still here. They probably won't be around (outside of zoos) for a whole lot longer.

[Ginnie]

altair4 said:

ha!! good one! sorry that was not intentional

I meant Polar Bear!!...the fury kind

So not gentle polar bears, I take it.

Watch out altair4 - I surprised gillianren hasn't attacked your bad spelling ways yet, but she probably couldn't keep up.
;D

[Jason]

There are actually about twice as many polar bears now as there were in the '70s, due to conservation efforts.

[LunarOrbit]

There are actually about twice as many polar bears now as there were in the '70s, due to conservation efforts.

That's not entirely correct. The main reason the population doubled is because estimates in the early 1970's were inaccurate and later revised. There weren't more bears, there were just more bears than we thought there were to begin with. But conservation did help.

From Wikipedia:

Because of the inaccessibility of the Arctic, there has never been a comprehensive global survey of polar bears, making it difficult to establish a global trend. The earliest preliminary estimates of the global population were around 5,000–10,000 in the early 1970s, but this was revised to 20,000–40,000 in the 1980s. Part of this increase may indicate recovery as a result of conservation measures implemented in the early 1970s, but it is principally a revised estimate based on a growing base of data. Current estimates bound the global population between 20,000-25,000.

The USGS estimates that the polar population will be just 1/3 of it's current number by 2050. They will be practically extinct by 2080.

[Jason]

I predict polar bears will not be extinct in 2080. Unfortunately I probably won't be around to verify that prediction, but I stand by it nevertheless.

[Data Cable]

An-i-maaaal!

[Jason]

The common house cat. It's the only animal that I would actually want to share a home with.

I mean, polar bears are cute and all, but you can't really cuddle with one and expect it not to try to eat you.

[echnaton]

altair4 said:

I meant Polar Bear!!...the fury kind

That would be the kind that drink Coke then? You know the ones that moved to Antarctica so they could share Coke with penguins. Or did the penguins migrate to the arctic. I get confused from watching too much TV some times.