they'd love it, until it swiped at them with those (non-retracting) claws... and then when it doubled its mass and looked at them as tasty walking tidbits.
Cute as newborns. Terrifying even half-grown. I have never understood the idjits who think taunting a polar bear, even caged, is a good idea. Human=crunchy bits...
They're not born with them (ow!) but they develop by 4-6 months, based on the one baby I got to see up close (OMG adorable until you looked closely at the paws and teeth, at which point some instinct kicks in and you go "ulp")
(one of my characters in the Retrievers book is based, physically, on a polar bear, so I did some research before-paw)
Uh, oh. It's Knut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Knut_polar_bear_cub_german_vanity_fair.jpg) all over again. If your German's good, here's his blog (http://www.rbb-online.de/knut/).
Apparently, zoo official suspect that one new mother bear ate her two cubs and the one in the video's mom was throwing him around, which indicated she didn't know how to care for him.
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Cute as newborns. Terrifying even half-grown. I have never understood the idjits who think taunting a polar bear, even caged, is a good idea. Human=crunchy bits...
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(one of my characters in the Retrievers book is based, physically, on a polar bear, so I did some research before-paw)
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Apparently, zoo official suspect that one new mother bear ate her two cubs and the one in the video's mom was throwing him around, which indicated she didn't know how to care for him.