Posted February 26th, 2004 at 11:24PMPolar bears turn green in Singapore
“A perplexing sight awaits visitors to the polar bear enclosure at Singapore zoo.
The bulky Arctic beasts – usually clad in a thick coat of snow-white hair – have started turning green.
A zoo spokesman ended speculation that the animals had been spray-painted in camouflage colours.
The green colouring is apparently the work of algae which have found a new home in the bears’ translucent hair shafts.
“The harmless algae is the result of Singapore’s warm and humid climate,” spokesman Vincent Tan told the Associated Press news agency. “
The world has gone insane. That’s all there is to it.
But don’t worry about green polar bears, because the fuckers are going to be extinict in a hundred years:
Polar bear ‘extinct within 100 years’
“The polar bear could be driven to extinction by global warming within 100 years, warns an ecology expert.
The animal, which relies on sea ice to catch seals, is already starting to suffer the effects of climate changes in areas such as Hudson Bay in Canada.
Scientists say Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate of up to 9% per decade. Arctic summers could be ice-free by mid-century. “
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