Did you know.....

**demon chloe** · January 15th, 2003, 05:18 PM

Polar bears are losing ground in Canada by Hudson Bay?

The ice is melting earlier.... therefore the bears are having trouble getting to the seals.

For each week a bear doesn't hunt on the ice, it becomes 22 pounds lighter.

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Global Warming......

I love polar bears... I drive... 103 miles one way sometimes....just to hang out ...and watch the bear at the zoo... I hate zoos....other than.... they allow for continuation of certain species...but..

How often does a chick like me...get to hang with polar bears? [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

So..turn out your lights... save a polar bear...*L i just made a sign for my classroom...... yay...

**juliet smiles** · January 16th, 2003, 03:14 PM

Polar Bears: good [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Global Warming: bad [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]

hmmm not really sure what my opinion is completely on zoos. I must say that I have enjoyed going to them, getting to see animals and certain species that I otherwise never would have been able to.

soooo... hmmmmm

**demon chloe** · January 16th, 2003, 05:43 PM

ooh Juliet............. I think they have s oo much goodness. WHere else could a child go and watch a giraffe when its' natural habit isn't anywhere close. If you look at from an educational or recreational view... they are truly a blessing.

Minnesota has this free zoo, Como Park Zoo.. it's in an old historic section of the city.. a lovely little zoo with a beautiful park setting and other great features. Yet I admit, as I am sitting there staring at a chimpanzee who is looking lazily at me..... like it is bored from behind the bars..I wonder sometimes.... why we cage animals up. For the perpetuation of a specie HOW DO YOU spell Specie???? if its for that reason..I get it. But not all zoo's are humane... and I worry.

Cuz I don't have enough to worry about I guess...*L

PNSONR · January 16th, 2003, 10:26 PM

how can you be sure it's not the seals melting the ice?!

hmmmmmmm, did you ever think about the seals?

ahhhhhh, the zoo. i was at the cincinnati zoo once, and they had a walrus in a pool where you could walk down and view through the glass on the side of the pool...
the walrus started to ummmmm, enjoy himself right up next to the glass, and all the little kids down there were asking their moms
"what is he doing?" !!
the moms briskly walked their kids out!
it was pretty funny...

by the way, walruses have HUGE penises

**juliet smiles** · January 17th, 2003, 04:16 PM

Chloe *S* I think you and I would find that we are worriers of a kind. I dont' knock zoos by any means.. I do enjoy them but also wonder bout the treatment etc.. I tend to hope that its all for good *G*

seals are good too Pnsonr.. one effects the other.. chain reaction.. good or bad

all nature is grand..

and I have no idea what I would of told my kids about the walrus. Never thought bout the size of a Walrus penis before..

PNSONR · January 18th, 2003, 01:44 PM

did you know...
that most bats mate in the fall, and the female carrys the sperm until the spring when fertilization occurs?

"in fact, bats are the only mammals in which sperm can survive in this way, and this approach appears to require that bats enter deep hibernation for most of the winter."

www.batcon.org

**The Lady Belle** · January 19th, 2003, 11:29 AM

A fact about kangaroos that not many people know..

All female macropods have a forward-opening pouch with four nipples. They all give birth to one joey at a time. A female kangaroo can feed a young joey in her pouch while keeping an embryo in a fixed state. When the joey leaves the pouch, the embryo will begin to develop again. The ability to stop embryo development is known as embryonic diapause. During diapause, a viable embryo is carried in the uterus for up to many months. This is a reproductive feature common in macropods, but not seen in other marsupials.

Once conceived, the gestation period is 260 days or 9 months. Being marsupials, one of their most striking features is that they are born at an extremely immature stage, being blind, hairless and only partly formed. The tiny, bean-sized, newborn arrives 33 days after conception and makes its way to the pouch, where it attaches itself to one of the teats. The young kangaroo stays in the pouch for at least 6 months while continuing to grow and develop. At the same time, another embryo is carried by the mother, which is born almost immediately after the pouch is vacated. The older joey continues to suckle from the pouch for several weeks and the mother is able to produce two kinds of milk from two different teats at the same time, one being suitable for the new-born and the other for the older joey. The young joey is dependent on its mother for food and protection for about 1 year.