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Jimbuna 12-10-11 04:25 PM
Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured
 
First I knew of this...how very sad :nope:

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Polar bears normally hunt seals but if these are not available, the big predators will seek out other sources of food - even their own kind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16081214

Betonov 12-10-11 04:59 PM
It's not uncommon in the animal world actually. Even if we don't include insects

Jimbuna 12-10-11 06:03 PM
Still disturbing to see/learn of :-?

TLAM Strike 12-10-11 06:43 PM
"Clarice? What did you see?"
"Polar Bears"

1480 12-10-11 07:10 PM
puts the lotion in the basket....

It's gruesome to see, but a perfect example of Darwinism.

Kaye T. Bai 12-11-11 11:25 AM
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Polar bears normally hunt seals but if these are not available, the big predators will seek out other sources of food - even their own kind.
All organisms resort to cannibalism when food is not available.

Kongo Otto 12-11-11 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 1803342)
It's not uncommon in the animal world actually. Even if we don't include insects
Chimpanzees do that also, its as you said not uncommon.

Takeda Shingen 12-11-11 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Kaye T. Bai (Post 1803622)
All organisms resort to cannibalism when food is not available.
http://www.horrorphile.net/images/th...cannibals1.jpg

Book was better than the film.

Betonov 12-11-11 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Kongo Otto (Post 1803637)
Chimpanzees do that also, its as you said not uncommon.
:yep:

I once saw one of those farm cats, that used to dwel in our barn, eat her young. But couldn't quite understand why, food is usually abundant (mice, scraps, leftover dog food) :hmmm:

1480 12-11-11 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1803644)
Whats that from?

1480 12-11-11 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 1803692)
:yep:

I once saw one of those farm cats, that used to dwel in our barn, eat her young. But couldn't quite understand why, food is usually abundant (mice, scraps, leftover dog food) :hmmm:
Black bears, the female will not ovulate unless there is enough of it's preferred diet in its system in the late summer. How is that relevant? Animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

Takeda Shingen 12-11-11 02:55 PM
Pic is from the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A tough, but excellent read.

jumpy 12-11-11 06:34 PM
Just finished that last week, it was a gift for my mum last year, but she hasn't got around to reading it yet.
Aside from the detail in the printed word that is often lost in film adaptations, I thought it was reasonably faithful to the book.
It piqued my curiosity as to 'what the disaster was' that put an end to civilisation as we know it, the lack of a definite answer to this was something that added to the whole out of time feeling the book had, the isolation and detachment from what was before.

On the harshness scale of disaster/fall of mankind stories it was a little bit behind Lucifers Hammer in it's scale but had a more intimate character for all of that.
Recommended.

Takeda Shingen 12-11-11 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jumpy (Post 1803819)
Just finished that last week, it was a gift for my mum last year, but she hasn't got around to reading it yet.
Aside from the detail in the printed word that is often lost in film adaptations, I thought it was reasonably faithful to the book.
It piqued my curiosity as to 'what the disaster was' that put an end to civilisation as we know it, the lack of a definite answer to this was something that added to the whole out of time feeling the book had, the isolation and detachment from what was before.

On the harshness scale of disaster/fall of mankind stories it was a little bit behind Lucifers Hammer in it's scale but had a more intimate character for all of that.
Recommended.
Oh, absolutely. The movie was not bad at all. As to what the disaster was, I suppose it really doesn't matter, which is why McCarthy didn't bother telling us about it. The point of the book was the nature of man and the struggle to hang to what is 'right'.

Madox58 12-12-11 01:39 AM
Even the U.S. Military will justify cannibalism in an extreme survival situation.
One thing I was taught, and taught others in Egypt?
If a fellow Trooper dies? Cut him up and put his remains into a water trap if your stranded out in the desert.
Kind of gruesome yes. But survival depends mostly on your mindset.


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