The feelings of a polar bear

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Haha this is hilarious! Great captures, I think you got the whole spectrum.

It's a good thing to avoid their "hungry" moments.

Fun series.

As humans we tend to assume our emotions in the face of a wild animal.I feel that zoo's play an important role in conservation and public awareness but for an apex preditor to be confined is sad
even though most are born in captivity now or "rescued".

halitime wrote in post #12307560
As humans we tend to assume our emotions in the face of a wild animal.I feel that zoo's play an important role in conservation and public awareness but for an apex preditor to be confined is sad
even though most are born in captivity now or "rescued".

The post was made purely for fun. I didn't think that the polar bear was actually having a manic episode where he went through a dozen feelings in a minute.

Great pictures....thank you for sharing...............

nice It is good to have a little fun once in a while. Great portraits btw.

Crimzon wrote in post #12313806
nice It is good to have a little fun once in a while. Great portraits btw.

I agree, looks like you had some fun and got some good shots as well.

Thank you all for the kind words

halitime wrote in post #12307560
As humans we tend to assume our emotions in the face of a wild animal.I feel that zoo's play an important role in conservation and public awareness but for an apex preditor to be confined is sad
even though most are born in captivity now or "rescued".

Some of the ones that are rescued are done so because they have been orphaned for one reason or the other...and no...not always because the mother has been shot.

At certain ages, without the benefit of a mother bear, they will die..either through starvation or predation by usually a male Polar bear.

I live in Manitoba, the province that has a great number of Polar Bears living in the wild.

Lesmore wrote in post #12329916
Some of the ones that are rescued are done so because they have been orphaned for one reason or the other...and no...not always because the mother has been shot.

At certain ages, without the benefit of a mother bear, they will die..either through starvation or predation by usually a male Polar bear.

I live in Manitoba, the province that has a great number of Polar Bears living in the wild.

And I live in their denning area. Gillam Manitoba and Churchill are on opposite ends of Wapusk National Park, one of the largest collection of known polar bear denning sites in the world. We often run into bears when on snowmobile between here and Churchill ("Polar bear capital of the world"). Took these pictures about a month ago. You can clearly see the cub tracks, and notice the fine hair drag marks in the prints, they were JUST ahead of us.

Great pics! Loved the humor

low-1 wrote in post #12330053
And I live in their denning area. Gillam Manitoba and Churchill are on opposite ends of Wapusk National Park, one of the largest collection of known polar bear denning sites in the world. We often run into bears when on snowmobile between here and Churchill ("Polar bear capital of the world"). Took these pictures about a month ago. You can clearly see the cub tracks, and notice the fine hair drag marks in the prints, they were JUST ahead of us.

And this guy was less than 500 ft from where we were working pulling up scrap wire underneath the Hydro line.

And that's why, when the locals travel through those areas, we wear these, or something similar:

Great pictures.....good to see that you're equipped to be safe. People in the Churchill area have learned to live safely...with the bears in the same area. I think the practices that those in Churchill and the surrounding area have developed are practical , common sense and effective for both people and bears.