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“I’ve got to live in this town too,” he said to us at one point. “And I’d like to go out to a restaurant and eat. I just gave them a thousand-dollar ticket, and I’m gonna go in their restaurant?” Aspen needs bear bitches.
Generally speaking, translocation is a better tool for managing the public than it is for managing bears.
For every 1.8-degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature, hibernation shortened by about a week. Based on current climate change projections, black bears of the year 2050 will be hibernating 15 to 40 days less than they are now. That’s 15 to 40 more days out on the landscape looking for food. Add “more bear break-ins” to the list of possible consequences of climate change.
The upside, if it can be said there is one, is that natural selection favors the Fat Alberts. Aggressive bears are likely to be put down before they have much opportunity to pass on their genes.
The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There’s a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels.
“We the human beings, we are disturbing them.”
“They are paid one hundred fifty rupees a day.” This is less than the cost of a cappuccino at the Delhi airport. “It’s a colonial mentality. They are the same tribal laborers that the British brought in from central India. They use them because they are considered hardworking and obedient.”
Depending on your species, religion, gender, and caste, India may be a better place to be an animal than it is to be a human.
The future of turd science is bright.
Why, for that matter, is intelligence the scale by which we decide whom to spare? Or size? Have the simple and the small less right to live?
When the Twin Towers collapsed, close to a billion pieces of debris had to be searched for human remains. It was the largest forensic investigation in United States history.
Was there a biological motive? Are some species just dicks?
Still, neither Julie nor Sarah would say that gulls, as a species, are dickish.†
“When it comes to wildlife issues, seems like we’ve created a lot of our own problems.”
