the last bare bear

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 19:00

by iosaf

and you know what happens to honey bears after dark when they lose all their little hairs...

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Animal Rights.

Animals have rights.
please remember that.
Some people go all the way and don't eat things with eyes, ( I'm not one of those) but it is very difficult to accept the current scientific orthodoxy of evolutionary theory and the emergence of modern human and not be struck by our animal nature.

The difference is very very small.

The difference is Bush, Oil, and hunting.

The sort of hunting that led to the shooting by a french man for sport of the last fertile European Bear surviving in the wilds of the Pyrennes in the last week.

Her cub survived the incident which has shocked people who think that somehow Bears belonged in the Pyrennes and ought still live there happily.

Scientists are working out a way of leaving food for the surviving cub to help it survive the winter which still hasn't come but will soon enough see temperatures plummet below zero for at least three months.

The scientists reckon the bear cub has a 50/50 chance of survival.

If it survives the next question for the Pyrennean European bear species, now reduced to one just recently weened cub, will be finding it ( a male ) a mate. And then purists may indeed argue any offspring would by hybrids.

Every month a species of birds leaves our beautiful garden of Earth.

makes you think. doesn't it?

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another curiosity... "groundhog day"

Thu Nov 11, 2004 08:15

The same week that the last fertile bear of the Pyrennes (can't spell that mountain range sorry) got shot by a French hunter in sight of it's cub, a man died in the outskirts of Barcelona after his car collided with a herd of boar.
The Catalan government are calling for a cull of wild boar who have become the most recent ferile species to recover from "being under threat" to "urban". In less than twenty years the boar, (closest wild relative to the pig or for american godfearing readers "the hog") has recovered from being underthreat to being as common place as the urban fox.
As of yet animal protection entities have not called for a widespread campaign to protect the "jabali" of Asterix fame who have been seen scouring bins for food as close to the city centre as fifteen kilometres.

Oh and the wolf has succesfully migrated from southern France this summer into Euskal Herria.
Wolves have now been sighted in the Basque Country and are thought to be leaving the "under threat list".

It _does make you think_ doesn't it?

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