Polar Bear:Inside Natures Giants

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Dawkin's giving his reason on why primates have bones in their penis, he is holding a Walrus penis bone the size of his arm.
Interesting viewing.

[Six Fiend]

Excellent program. I like bears

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As do I. Sadly missed most of this, after seeing all the previous Inside Nature's Giants.
Will have to catch it in iplayer.

[Jasandjules]

Only caught a few minutes of it. Sad to see such a beautiful beast killed.

Also, if Polar Bears are all gonna die due to AGW (a lie of course but still) then why are they allowed to hunt? Surely there's no point us all paying billions of pounds in tax to save polar bears then they are hunted to extinction.............

[theironduke]

Jasandjules said:

Only caught a few minutes of it. Sad to see such a beautiful beast killed.

Also, if Polar Bears are all gonna die due to AGW (a lie of course but still) then why are they allowed to hunt? Surely there's no point us all paying billions of pounds in tax to save polar bears then they are hunted to extinction.............

I was under the impression polar bears are far from extinction. Similar to the Elephant myth (though less numbers) where there are too many of the things if you have to live cheek by jowl with them, destruction of peoples homes/crops etc.

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theironduke said:

I was under the impression polar bears are far from extinction. Similar to the Elephant myth (though less numbers) where there are too many of the things if you have to live cheek by jowl with them, destruction of peoples homes/crops etc.

Humans are constantly growing in population and need and resource taking and encroaching on the elephants world, how is them being endangered a myth? A population of millions down to hundreds of thousands in 100 years.
"At the turn of the 20th century, it is estimated that elephants numbered between 5 and 10 million, but hunting and habitat destruction had reduced their numbers to 400,000 to 500,000 by the end of the century. In the ten years preceding 1990 the population more than halved from 1.3 million to around 600,000, largely caused by the ivory trade, prompting an international ivory ban. While elephant populations are increasing in parts of southern and eastern Africa,[66] other African nations report a decrease of their elephant populations by as much as two-thirds, and populations in even some protected areas are in danger of being eliminated Chad has a decades-old history of poaching of elephants, which has caused the elephant population of the region, which exceeded 300,000 in 1970, to drop to approximately 10,000 today. In Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the number of elephants living in the observable area of the park fell from 2,889 in 1951 to 348 in 2006."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant

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Hippo on tonight.
Amazing creatures.
2 inch thick skin, and that red fluid which repairs, kills germs and protects from the sun. Give a human that and he could be Wolverine!

[Thunderstruck80]

Great to watch, but that American lass gets on my nerves.

[Happy82]

Thunderstruck80 said:

Great to watch, but that American lass gets on my nerves.

Good pair of baps though

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Happy82 said:

Good pair of baps though

She gets opened up on the next show.

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I thought the title for tonight's sounded a little tired. But it is actually really good.

Very sad that palm oil need is destroying the rainforest.