Beloved polar bear Sheba has died at the Singapore Zoo

[Extremist]

Beloved polar bear Sheba has died at the Singapore Zoo.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore just reported that the 35-year-old bear died Thursday.
"She was under treatment since September for loss of strength in her hind limbs, but her condition deteriorated in the past week. A close evaluation revealed her prognosis was poor, and the polar bear had to be euthanised on humanitarian grounds."
It said 35 years was a ripe old age, "far exceeding the normal life span of polar bears in captivity."
Sheba was the mother of Inuka (both in the photograph). Inuka continues to reside at the zoo and is now 21 years old.

 

[blackmondy]

So when's the panda's turn ?

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Nothing lasts forever.

 

[Conqueror]

Save The Wild Polar Bears

Nothing lasts forever.

Actually, my greatest fear wasn't Sheba's death. Many polar bears are trying survive in the Arctic Circle region. A docu showed how the mother bear and her child died while swimming a very long distance to another spot. Why ? The ice are melting and more water body than ever. The polar bears can hardly catch their preys now with more water than ice.

Biologists studying polar bears off the coast of Alaska have found that when cubs are forced to go on marathon swims with their mothers due to loss of sea ice, nearly half of them don't survive the journey.

The study, scheduled to be announced at the International Bear Association Conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, confirms the dangers of ice loss to Alaska's polar bear population. It's been widely theorized that adult polar bears have been forced to cross ever-longer stretches of open ocean as the polar regions heat up. The new work, by U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center researchers Anthony Pagano, Kristin Simac, George Durner, and Geoff York, confirms that theory. It also reveals that these open-water swims have a dramatic effect on young cubs, which are forced to follow their mothers in search of food and solid ground.

"This research is the first analysis to identify a significant multi-year trend of increased long-distance swimming by polar bears," co-author Geoff York said Monday. "Climate change is pulling the sea ice out from under polar bears' feet, forcing some to swim longer distances to find food and habitat."

 

[Heroine]

Rip.............

 

[halsey02]

When the last leaf going to fall from the 'tree'?? that's what we are interested, POLAR BEAR, not so!

 

[Conqueror]

The Earth Temperature History

When the last leaf going to fall from the 'tree'?? that's what we are interested, POLAR BEAR, not so!

You mean ... Desertification. Some people said that it wasn't men who change the temperature of the Earth. I read somewhere that temperature on Earth has always been sinusoidal. It is this that men of ancient time could migrate successfully without the need of boats or any form floating device - ice becomes solid 'ground'.

Men and animals may be bound for another disaster.

 

[tualingong]

Re: The Earth Temperature History

Bye bye Sheba! rest in peace.

Hello new bear!

 

[SheRa]

Re: The Earth Temperature History

Rest in peace.

Amen.

 

[Fishypie]

Re: The Earth Temperature History

Bye bye to our Zoo's biggest attraction Sheba..

 

[The Philistine]

Re: The Earth Temperature History

Guess she could not stand the shit from the pandas.

 

[red amoeba]

Bye bye to our Zoo's biggest attraction Sheba..

that ain't ah meng?

 

[The Philistine]

that ain't ah meng?

Ah Meng upped lorry already lah.