Video: Lethally adorable baby polar bear marked for death
posted at 4:54 pm on March 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
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By, um, animal rights activists. The zookeepers are domesticating him, which means he might have trouble interacting with other polar bears later, which naturally means it’s better that he die.
I’m not unsympathetic to their position. Cuteness at moderate levels is productive and useful, but cuteness this highly enriched could cause mass shock, seizures, and uncontrollable cooing. If it were ever to fall into the wrong hands…
Let’s just pray that day never comes.
There’s an even cuter video posted at the Daily Mail. Don’t click if you have a heart condition; otherwise please observe this, your strong cuteness warning, and proceed. It’s at the end of the article.
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Club it!
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 4:56 PM
lorien, AllahP; here hoping you enjoy the FIRES OF HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY.
honora on March 20, 2007 at 4:59 PM
There is a great episode of some idiot putting his head in the cage and getting it wacked off down the road.
bbz123 on March 20, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Mmmm polar bear stew :)
Number 2 on March 20, 2007 at 5:00 PM
What kind of BBQ sauce goes with polar bear?
Limerick on March 20, 2007 at 5:01 PM
When it bites your head off when it grows up come back and tell me how cute it is. :P
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Just don’t breath any CO2 at it while your clubbing it in the head.
DaveS on March 20, 2007 at 5:05 PM
New gloves and coat?
Bad Candy on March 20, 2007 at 5:05 PM
When a polar bear does his ‘business’ is that a positive or negative carbon offset?
Limerick on March 20, 2007 at 5:06 PM
More seriously, if he cannot function in the wild, he shouldn’t be released.
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Panda bears, move over.
Nonfactor on March 20, 2007 at 5:06 PM
I read somewhere that the polar bear is the only bear known to hunt humans as food. All the same, they shouldn’t kill it until it has a little more meat on its ribs.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 20, 2007 at 5:08 PM
Der Lebensunwerter Baer!
Lehuster on March 20, 2007 at 5:08 PM
That is major league cute. The global warming crowd has done well in choosing this animal for propaganda purposes.
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:08 PM
There should be plenty of room at the Edward’s house to drop him off there.
Although I don’t think he could stand the cuteness competition.
bbz123 on March 20, 2007 at 5:09 PM
I’m thinking a sweet one.
steveegg on March 20, 2007 at 5:10 PM
It is certainly true that Eskimos (and all wise people) fear fully grown polar bears. Especially those looking for food. However, I don’t think I’ve ever even read a documented instance of somebody being eaten by a polar bear.
Grizzlies seem to be much more dangerous.
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Tim Treadwell was unavailable for comment.
Bad Candy on March 20, 2007 at 5:12 PM
I can see your point. However, the meat won’t be any more tender than it is now.
steveegg on March 20, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Seems to me lethal injection would hamper interaction a bit, also.
B Moe on March 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM
What hurts my head about this situation, is the moronic statement from that animal rights wacko.
we need to kill it to preserve its dignity. What a pantload. I have no problem with a zoo doing what it can to help one of its animals to grow up. I seriously doubt the zookeepers intend to keep it as a pet.
If this is too demeaning to the cub, what about oil spills? All the enviromentalists rush out and bathe the soaked animals. Isn’t that demeaning too? (sarcasm intended)
still468 on March 20, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Hilarious!
PRCalDude on March 20, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Honest question here: where is the line when it comes to “helping” animals?
If Gaia, for example, wants the panda bear wiped out, are we humans supposed to intervene to save it from extinction? Isn’t that rather unnatural?
P.S. Slap a language warning on that clip, will ya!
saint kansas on March 20, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Dammit. I thought the “this highly enriched” link was going to take me to a shot of KP.
Blacklake on March 20, 2007 at 5:21 PM
This is the first time I’ve ever believed in a right wing conspiracy. Every friggin conservative blog has been running with this story. Did El Rushbo issue an order or something?
I keed. I Keed (to all the irony deficient readers). The story really is to juicy to pass up.
Shtetl G on March 20, 2007 at 5:25 PM
This is insane.
‘course we do it with baby humans all the time, so what’s one polar bear more or less…
Lawrence on March 20, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Best flash game ever becomes reality!
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 5:28 PM
I watched a Polar Bear documentary on Animal Planet and they mentioned that polar bears will actively hunt humans. In the documentary they mentioned that this was unique because, while any preditor will eat a human if they’re hungry and the human is around, the polar bear is the only predator known to “choose” human over other readily available prey.
Apparently they’ve never watched shark week though. Plenty of seals all around and the shark “accidently”
Once again, the hippies are lagging behind big business. The brain trust at Coca Cola figured out the cuteness factor of polar bears long ago and has been using them for years to push their product.
JadeNYU on March 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
A commenter at the Daily Mail had a better idea:
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Pretty bear! Pretty snow bear! I love you! Here’s your bottle of mil…Wait.. where did my hand go?
GoodBoy on March 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Lorien…
This game is actually much more fun.
DaveS on March 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Sorry, but I’ve never put myself in a situation, where a polar bear has the ability to bite off my head. Have you lorien?
amerpundit on March 20, 2007 at 5:35 PM
Apparently, polar bears eat submarines.
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:36 PM
JadeNYU,
Wikipedia agrees with you:
Polars bears sometimes turn green:
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Don’t people realize that it takes hundred of years to domesticate animals? That’s because you have to breed and breed and breed until you get rid of the animal’s killer instincts.
A few zoo keepers cuddling with this cub will work all the way up until the cub hits a little thing called ‘puberty’ (although, it might be called something different in the animal world). At that point, the cub will become just as deadly as all the other polar bears.
The only thing they should be concerned about is making sure that they cub learns how to hunt (if he’s ever going to be released into the wild). However, since they are planning on using him as a stud animal for other zoos, I doubt they are planning on releasing him to the wild, so, even that isn’t a concern.
Do animal activists know anything about animals?
JadeNYU on March 20, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Typically, JadeNYU, no, and even less about humans.
bbz123 on March 20, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Yuck, I hate cuteness. Can we have more videos with foul language instead?
Enrique on March 20, 2007 at 5:45 PM
that’s a very cute bear. AP, you’ve gone soft on us!!
pullingmyhairout on March 20, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Mashed Potato(e)s, gravy, and cranberry sauce, Ooooooohhh!
MORE ROBOT VIDEOS!
Kini on March 20, 2007 at 5:51 PM
I think I just got a lethal injection of cute!
liberrocky on March 20, 2007 at 5:52 PM
I have a personal message to all animal activists:
Save the Planet, Kill Yourselves!
If everyone could wait until the bear becomes a danger, then a good price for the fur coat, gloves, etc., and lots of meat will be a reward for waiting until the proper harvest time.
ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOTE:
I saw Michelle and KP on the Factor last night. Sorry, Allah, KP had worry lines on her forehead, Michelle wins hands down!
tormod on March 20, 2007 at 5:54 PM
The culture of death is no longer just for humans!
RWB on March 20, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Look – if we don’t hurry up and warm this planet. Polar bears will take over. Then you WILL be in that situation every day. Think about the children!
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Watch out for that word combo “no documented instance.” It is used a lot, to soothe people into complacency.
It’s not easy to file a report when you’re being digested.
Heard that about cougars, wolves and pythons. Have a friend who saw a very, very large python cut open to reveal the crushed remains of a man. All my life I’d been taught that pythons can’t eat people – too big or something. Yeh, at first glance, everything’s too big for a python, until it does the ol’ trash compacter squeeze, then voila! Dinner fits!
If it’s a predator, people are potential prey. Good rule of thumb to stay alive by.
naliaka on March 20, 2007 at 6:03 PM
I’ll say that was cute !!
And the Baby Polar bear wasn’t bad either !
moc23 on March 20, 2007 at 6:07 PM
You’re right.naliaka, if my dog could figure out how to use the can-opener and door knob he would eat me while i sleep. I keep the instructions hidden for that very reason.
bbz123 on March 20, 2007 at 6:07 PM
Plus, clubbing baby animals seems like it’d be so much fun!
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 6:07 PM
Those pictures are cute!! It’s amazing how the young of many species are so appealing. Kind of like it was planned that way, you know? ;)
Those animal “activists” quotes are arrogant and cruel. What kind of a zoo keeper says something like this, “But I also think it is too late to kill him now: the courage to do this should have been found sooner.”?
The zoo plans on keeping baby Knut, so it’s a moot point about whether interaction with humans would “ruin” him for life in the wild.
I remember watching the movie Born Free years ago. The decision was made that the baby lion, Elsa, needed to go back to the wild. I’m trying to think the woman painstakingly helped the lion learn to survive; to hunt, etc.
It’s part of being human to care for animals, especially those wounded or defenseless. I’d be concerned about the basic nature of someone who would call for the unnecessary killing of a little one.
I think this story has been all over the place because it is such a vivid illustration of the inscrutable lunacy of the Leftist mindset.
INC on March 20, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Um, if I read correctly, they had considered using this bear (later in his life) possibly as a “stud” for breeding.
So no, it isn’t planned to be released into the wild (like any animals at the zoo).
gekkobear on March 20, 2007 at 6:23 PM
What would Mohammed do?
shaken on March 20, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Alarming. Truly alarming. So I’m with Lorien:
PRCalDude on March 20, 2007 at 6:27 PM
its almost worth being completely strictly liable to have a bear that cute
Defector01 on March 20, 2007 at 6:37 PM
You people are sickening me.
Don’t you realize that killing this polar bear costs us one more ally in the War on Baby Seals? We can’t club ‘em all, after all.
fusionaddict on March 20, 2007 at 6:41 PM
He’d probably ask Allah how the hell a polar bear wound up in the Arabian desert.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 20, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Polar Bear sympathizer.
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Very high cute factor. I want one. So long as it NEVER grows up.
thedecider on March 20, 2007 at 6:50 PM
I was actually hunting grizzlies on Kodiak Island Alaska with a group of people. I had a .308 bolt action and those mofo bears just won’t die easily!!! Someone had a huge elephant gun (don’t know the caliber), but he was able to put it down. Took that damn bear nearly 30 minutes to stop kicking. I just hunt for the sport, but some of the guys actually eat bear meat. Yuck! Guess what they told me it tastes like????
Andy in Agoura Hills on March 20, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Haha! Interesting point. I hadn’t thought of that. Who will carry out the jihad against baby seals?
PRCalDude on March 20, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Canadians.
lorien1973 on March 20, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Hehe.
There was a case around these parts a while ago. A guy expired in his truck – not sure why. His dog was stuck in the truck with, ah … him. After a couple of days, someone called animal control cause they heard the dog barking and were worried about the dog. Animal control got up close and, well, immediately called the fire department and police. WIth all expecting a vicious attack animal, one of the EMTs opened the door and out popped the dog, all happy, affectionate, and in excellent shape, despite being confined for about three days. The dog was put down, reluctantly – for having done what any dog would do under the circumstances – because who was going to adopt a canine which had consumed its former owner, no matter how friendly the dog was?
naliaka on March 20, 2007 at 7:20 PM
I remember a video I saw of the the polar bear twins that were hand-raised at the Denver Zoo back in the 90s. Cute as hell, but they filmed a tantrum that one of the cubs threw when he was just a few months old, and that little booger really lit into the keeper. Luckily, he was still small. It made me realize that those guys’ natural temperament kicks in pretty early, even if they are hand-raised. They’re really dangerous.
Also, I used to be a zookeeper (birds), and I have never heard of a zoo, in America at least, that does not hand-raise baby animals when the parents won’t care for the baby. Why is this a controversy in Europe? It seems to be a creepy strain of leftism.
juliesa on March 20, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Yikes! That wins my vote for most disgusting story I’ve ever read on this blog. Reminds me of that Hannibal movie with the old lady and her little dog.
thedecider on March 20, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Perhaps I’m twisted, but, I would have adopted the dog. He was trapped with only one option for food. It’s not his fault. Now, I might be more concerned if there had been a bag of dog food that was unopened because he had started by dining on his former owner.
JadeNYU on March 20, 2007 at 7:47 PM
juliesa, amazing! I was just thinking about the same video. the bear was a 100 lb adolescent and it went completely vicious when being fed. I remember one woman scrunched up against the wall of the bear’s cage trying to make herself disappear, and the bear not wanting to leave its food to follow through on what would have been a bad attack.
In a similar vein, I recall a video of some schmuck who raised his young daughter with wolf pups as playmates. Well, wolves mature quickly and are very problematic to domesticate. Anyway dumb daddy just caught one of the wolves in the process of going after his daughter and stopped what would have been lethal. Wolves in the wild can reach 150 pounds and could kill a child with one bite.
mcgilvra on March 20, 2007 at 7:47 PM
My parents were EMTs in the Rockies. They remember one call where a 3 year old little girl was being attacked by the family’s “pet” wolf.
The wolf hadn’t actually been attacking the child. He had been playing. Unfortunately, his form of playing involved picking her up and tossing her around like a rag doll. She ended up with puncture wounds all over (though she survived). They said you could tell by the fact that none of the wounds were too deep that the wolf wasn’t attacking.
People have seen one too many Disney ‘animal companion’ movies and don’t realize that wild animals are wild. Hand raising them doesn’t change what they are.
JadeNYU on March 20, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Or, the cub could be taken over to the Gore’s place where I hear they keep the thermostat at a crisp 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
CliffHanger on March 20, 2007 at 8:12 PM
Wow! The solution to global warming! Everybody jack up the AC and open the doors and windows!
RedWinged Blackbird on March 20, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Somebody needs to take a poll, one that includes the Polar bears’ opinion.
Polar bears are considered the most dangerous bear on earth.
The reason for that is, anything edible in range gets eaten for sure (blood on seat foam from a plane crash, smelled from miles away).
That’s because there isn’t that much to eat…because of all the ice.
If liberals think their so cute, they need to go walkabout, on the ice(hey Polar bears have to eat too).
Speakup on March 20, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Exactly. Human flesh is unappealing to most predators, probably because we taste like chemicals (Keep those Big Macs comin’), but a predator that lives on an iceberg can’t afford to be picky.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 20, 2007 at 8:53 PM
No, no. They’re cultured. We’re just too barbaric to understand how killing a polar bear is actually being humane.
SouthernDem on March 20, 2007 at 8:54 PM
It might be our answer to Hollyweird. Lots of cute cuddly polar bear vids = lots of cute cuddly polar bear pets as the latest fashion statement = less actors shooting off their mouths. Yep the VRWC is real!
Limerick on March 20, 2007 at 8:56 PM
Hey Allah! I think you have the video playing backwards or something. I couldn’t understand a word!
Oh wait…being part of the VRWC you are probably using subliminal messages. Bah…what am I thinking.
Hmmm…wonder why I have a hankerin’ for Memphis style Polar Bear….
Pilgrim on March 20, 2007 at 8:57 PM
From the article:
Typical, illogical, idiotic thought process.
Claim that a living entity is “not wanted” and then claim that the best thing to do is to kill that living entity.
This is one of the most offensive, and idiotic lines of reasoning from the dismemberment of baby advocates, AKA abortion advocates. “Every child a wanted child. Every child a loved child,” when reason that a child should be killed rather than born, even though there are literally MILLIONS of people who want to help baby be born safetly, and provide help for her mother, and also millions of people who with to adopt and give baby a wonderful, loving, supportive home!
Yes, babies are wanted. It is the dismemberment of baby advocates who don’t want the babies. They should be outlawed for working so dilligently to butcher innocent children.
Here, in the polar bear case, the self absorbed “animal rights” people think the best thing for a living, healthy baby polar bear is to kill the bear. Sick logic!
This beat is wanted. The zoo personnel want the bear. The visitors to the zoo want the bear. Some female bear will want to have babies with this bear.
What to do? Kill the bear, we because we love this bear? Nonsense!
Shut up!
Human beings have compassion and mercy and they exhibit this. Humans are acting “species appropriate” in this case and showing compassion and affection for this cute little bear in caring for the bear, that is what humans do! Leave him alone and let the zoo personnel care for this little miracle, this living, breathing, animated creature.
The bear will remain a bear. The bear’s behavior is encoded into his DNA. He will know what to do. Sure his envirnment will make a bit of difference, but he sill has enough information programmed into him that he will still be a polar bear, not a member of “The View,” or some idiotic Hollywood community of left wing, liberal sissies!
Of course the animal rights people who wish to have the bear killed know everything and won’t listen to the chief vet, even though his comment is 100% accurate in this statement.
I do not understand why chief vet Schule made that statement. I would expect that he would be up to date on the facts.
Even those who push the Global Warming “the Sky is Falling” Jihad on the masses have to admit that polar bear populations are up.
In a recent survey it was found that there are more polar bears alive today than there were decades ago. The polar bear population has actually increased. I don’t know why they would be listed on the disables species list any longer.
It seems that those who call for the “abortion” of this baby bear “for his own good” are a good advertisement for the beneifts of abortion, meaning, maybe their mothers should have aborted THEM!
Just kidding, borrowing a cliche from the abortion advocates when they express their hate for conservatives who oppose abortion.
William
William2006 on March 20, 2007 at 9:02 PM
I think the baby bear is cute. I wouldn’t want to be around an older one, but what an honor to be able to enjoy its company when it’s young. (Wow, a comment without a political overtone. How unique.)
Coronagold on March 20, 2007 at 9:26 PM
Contact the bears parents and lecture them on using birth control and abortion. Adoption is not an option.
Maybe the animal activist should be put out of their misery.
Kini on March 20, 2007 at 9:51 PM
I have to agree, I’d love to have this little guy….as long as he stays little and I can pick him up.
I saw a video on CBS of this adorable little guy and read some articles earlier today. Yes, I blogged about this as well.
This video really needs a cuteness warning label.
Mooseman
Mooseman on March 20, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Grizzly versus caribou.
tommy1 on March 20, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Give it another chance with the other polar bears at the zoo. Let them devou…. err, I mean decide as Mother Nature intended.
Yakko77 on March 20, 2007 at 10:15 PM
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!
Polar Bears . . . . Germans . . . . And no one makes a joke?
It’s it German Tourists that are always getting eaten by things?
- The Cat
MirCat on March 20, 2007 at 10:33 PM
http://www.polarbearhunting.net/
gotta love America we got it all
Limerick on March 20, 2007 at 10:40 PM
That’s not America, that’s up there with those Anti-Environmentalist Canadians.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 20, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Just a suburb…….wink wink nod nod
Limerick on March 20, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Lest we not forget, the Polar Bear is the ultimate predator in it’s environment, next to man. It can smell a baby seal under 9 feet of snow 1/4 mile away and will have it as a snack quicker than you can say “oh that seal pup was so cute”.
Oh, and by the way, if you are reading this comment you are also on the polar bear’s menu.
The cub is so cute if you can genetically engineer it not to grow 9 feet tall, 1/2 ton or better, have 9″ razor sharp claws, and teeth that will rip a human’s head off before he could say “Uh Oh, help me Mr. Bill!”.
These picture of such a cute infant seem naive to me, to those who see a cute teddy bear and not a voracious predator that will consume anything and everything in their path – including you.
Want a cute, cuddle, warm, fuzzy, purring, lovable creature? Get a Tribble. They are safer.
omegaram on March 20, 2007 at 11:25 PM
I say off with his head! Don’t be fooled, even the cutest of bears are really terrifying:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mi2kgDPQR7s
(I really don’t mean “off with his head”, but this just gives me a chance to link to a video I’m surprised AP hasn’t found funny enough to post. To each their own, but I find it hilarious)
RightWinged on March 20, 2007 at 11:38 PM
I really detest animal rights groups. They serve no purpose or function but to waste the time and resources of everyone they inflict their self-righteous stupidity on.
See what I mean? Why is there a debate? What purpose does it serve? Oh, perhaps this…
And they know the polar bear feels humiliated, how? I think animal rights activists should be given a lethal injection rather than allowing them to continue the sad portrayal of rational, thoughtful people. I also think my position makes me extremely humane! Why isn’t everyone more like me?
thedecider on March 20, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Put it in a burlap bag, hang it from a tree limb and use it as a pinata.
csdeven on March 20, 2007 at 11:54 PM
hahaha
“Get out here! I’m getting killed!”
csdeven on March 21, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Love the bear, club the lefties.
JustTruth101 on March 21, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Then why doesn’t he just stay in a zoo somewhere? For Gods sake, all zoo animals are domesticated to a large degree.
Pitiful.
BacaDog on March 21, 2007 at 12:32 AM
I don’t think it would like the loud music and probably can’t dance.
GoodBoy on March 21, 2007 at 6:08 AM
lorien, after reading through the comments one this post, I’m pretty sure that you’re my hero.
Wolfman on March 21, 2007 at 6:57 AM
Supposedly the big difference between dogs and cats: it takes a dog a couple, three days to resort to this. A cat? A cat will go for you the minute you stop fogging the mirror. Which is one of many reasons I am a dog person. I mean, have you seen Lady and the Tramp.
(I read this someplace. I really need to take a look at my reading habits….)
honora on March 21, 2007 at 10:16 AM
“No really, we’re killing you for your own good….”
Just think of it as a really, really late term abortion.
That should make it acceptable to enlightened liberals everywhere.
G-man on March 21, 2007 at 12:01 PM
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