Polar bears shrinking, eating each other due to global warming

Polar bears shrinking, eating each other due to global warming

By the blogowner, honestclimate, March 19, 2009

Is there anything global warming can’t do?

POTENTIALLY fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies.

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The primary observation is that as the sea ice shrinks away, so are the polar bears – they’re not growing as big as they used to.

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Climate change also appears to have altered the bears’ behavioural patterns.

Several recent incidents of cannibalism in Alaska have observers worried.

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