Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    11 hours ago

    Did you even read the headline of this article? This is the first polar bear seen in Iceland since 2016. They swim.

    Where exactly is this habitat supposed to be? The entire coast?

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      9 hours ago

      If humans had any respect at all for the natural world, they’d feed themselves to the bear.

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        9 hours ago

        Okay, we’ll put you down as part of the “children should be eaten by bears if they had any respect for the natural world” faction.