An unusual encounter between polar bears and some sled dogs was captured by world-renowned wildlife photographer Norbert Rosing. German-born Rosing was working in Canada’s Hudson Bay when the first large polar bear wandered into the camp.The animals got along quite well, rolling and playing in the snow. The polar bears returned for several days to continue to play with the dogs. These are a few of the amazing photographs of them interacting.
A fully-grown male polar bear can weigh up to 675kgs (1500lbs) and 3metres long (9.8ft) and it is thought that there are around 25,000 left in the wild. A male sled dog is around 0.7metres and weighs about 40kgs (90lbs).
Polar bears are classified as an endangered species by the US because of the current and future effects of global climate change. In Canada they are only classified as being a species of special concern; and even more unfortunately they are still hunted by sports hunters and indigenous peoples.
Norbert Rosing’s work has been featured in many magazines around the world including National Geographic and GEO Magazine. He is the author of eleven books, including The Arctic Fox, The World of the Polar Bear and Face to Face With Polar Bears.
Bottom Line
If natural enemies like a dog and a polar bear can manage to frolic in the snow surely we can find it in our hearts to live together in peace. Love and let live! Oh ya… ride your bike.
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The Wednesday Workout: 3-hour rollers, tempo ride 2-hour 30-minutes out of the saddle. Very hard effort, low cadence, blisters on my hands and feet.
Blistas?? Why? new shoes?
ReplyDeleteI only get blisters if I'm digging up the garden in spring without gloves.
Good question. I have many 1000s of miles in these shoes and you would think I would be fine. I think that because the resistance is sooooo high, the effort so great and the workout is quiet long… I destroy every pair of gloves in no time flat, but as soon as I return to the mountain bike in the spring all the hard earned calluses disappear and I have to suffer the pains of developing new one. Such is life.
ReplyDeletei think you just need to put in even MORE hours. HOLY CRAP, seriously Dave!
ReplyDeleteman I'M FAST for a lazy bugger.
You ARE fast.... you lazy bugger!!
ReplyDeleteHAHA I'm looking lazy compared to Dave, and I think I'm doing pretty good. Oh well if I feel tired I will slow down, haven't yet though. Dave, do you ever get tired?
Ask me if I am tiered at the end of the race! I just finished a battery of tests in the lab and I am tiered and sore now. I will blog about them at some point, but I am getting buried in work right now and struggling to find any time to ride, or sleep for that matter. When it rains it pores.
ReplyDeleteNow you guys are starting to figure out what I said about training volume and racing. Some people are high responders, other low. Kevin has great genetic. This was apparent when I first met him at Bur Oak riding with G-Man Adams. Greg has the right body type and attitude, but it is too early to really tell if you-he are actually a gifted endurance athlete or not. One of the best way to tell would be taking a MAP test. I, unfortunately, am not. I am by genetics disposition a strength or power athletes. Thus, it takes more training for me to reach higher levels of endurance then someone with better genetics. Such is life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ12rzh8At0
ReplyDeletetrue about the polar bear but the above argument states that if humanity were to stop abruptly its pollution and let nature on Earth take its balanced course, the result would have been a total breakdown, that yes we will lose the polar bear but nature has already “adapted” to human interventions,to such an extent that its cessation would cause a catastrophic imbalance.
just something to chew on..