This reminds me of a friend that once proposed that if we really wanted to mess with Europe we could release a few packs of coyotes
I’d say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear
Yup, and there’s a lot less risk of complete disruption to the normal food chain. One polar bear will eventually die, a dozen will probably take over.
or a dog
Nah let’s really confuse them. A lion.
nah, it’d freeze to death too fast
Antarctica compatible fursuit of a lion
Spray-paint a polar bear orange and stick a mane on it. Confusing and scary.
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And once they eat all the penguins and starve
St. Matthew Island with polar bears instead of reindeer.
You may find you struggle with step 1.
Also step 2. $4MM is not enough to run the kind of vessel needed to go to the poles for the length of time needed.
Zoos tend to struggle with Step 7 and they have far better conditions than a beat up converted freighter
I’ve been trying to do step one for years. But my bastard relatives refuse to die, and also refuse to be rich. Selfish I call it.
And then my siblings also think they’re entitled to some of the non-existent inheritance. So many selfish people in my family…
Then you have a penguin population crisis
Tbf we already have that due to glacier melt
Don’t penguins already have to survive orcas?
Yeah, in the water. Giving them another apex predator on land won’t make them happy, I’m sure.
I think the penguins would learn to just swim away, and the bears would starve since they would need to expend a lot of effort for a small bird versus the calorie-dense seals they’re used to.
To be fair, some penguins aren’t exactly small
The Emperor protects
That is a king penguin, not even the tallest subspecies (emperors are taller), but what you’re looking at is an optical illusion because the penguin is much closer to the camera than the humans.
Damn, well I’m leaving it up anyways.
So I’m hearing that we move some seals first…
They’d need to ambush the flock when they were on land, ensuring they could corner several before the penguins make it to water
plenty of polar bears eat salmon
Polar or grizzly bears… not sure salmon roams the north regions without rivers.
the north regions have rivers, and bluberrys; both of which are natural food sources.
Polar bears can fish (in this video they’re catching char, which is closely related to salmon), they’re just not used to it.
If they can eat fish, they can probably figure out penguins as well, which honestly aren’t too different from seals (slow on land, fast in the water).
Would work until the penguin pop. is too small and then they start dying out again
So then part of the program needs to be penguin Viagra to keep the numbers up
Crude dark matter oil should do the job.
Penguin spanish fly.
I’m almost mad at myself for not making this joke originally
Listen to this. How about we get a big boat, put the surviving penguins inside and ship them to the Artic!
Ahh the good old switcheroo
would have to be quite a few bears to avoid heavy inbreeding
A couple of birth defects wouldn’t matter much if you’re walking around a penguin buffet. They’d be fine.
Apparently it is 12 creatures, 6 male and 6 female, that is needed for a genetically diverse enough group to repopulate.
That depends entirely on what creature you’re talking about.
No, you must keep the bloodline pure.
Okay, McPoyle.
Sounds reasonable.
4 million buy a freight boat
I work in supply chain but not a complete expert but the smallest cheapest working order freight ship I can find for sale is this one for $6MM, doesn’t include licensing, crew, insurance and the dreyage/accessorial on live polar bears is gonna cost you big
https://petronav.net/container-ships-for-sale/container-adilia-i-ex-e-r-auckland
Does it really need to be a big container ship?
Didn’t people transport stuff in smaller boats back in the day?
(You still make a valid point though)
they did specify freight! although getting The Cutty Sark back in working order is probably even more costly.
Idk, polar bears are really heavy, and it takes a long time to get from one end of the planet to the other, so you want something secure to store the bears in. That means a bigger ship that can handle angry bears hurling themselves at the walls of their cage, because they will wake up during the journey, and they won’t be happy.
For some reason, just imagining this is fucking hilarious. OOP on a shipping container being mutinied by dozens of feral pissed of polar bears
Just do it while they’re hibernating 4head
people who wanted penguin in Minecraft after not voting in the mob vote:
Antarctica is generally colder than the Arctic. They would almost certainly be stuck along the coastlines of Antarctica like the penguins are, since the interior average temperatures rival the coldest ones ever recorded in the Arctic. They should be fine there, but then that means they have a very limited distribution and that penguins and seals consequently are always forced to share an environment with the polar bears. Because they’re not used to the polar bears, their populations would likely be destroyed, leaving the polar bears to starve. Unlike in the Arctic, too, they would have nowhere to retreat if their food supply ran out. Outward is hundreds of kilometers of ocean, and inward is hundreds of kilometers of unsurvivable desert.
they would have nowhere to retreat if their food supply ran out.
Um. Hello? There are scientists there.
Which means scientific papers, then tourists, then garbage and a symbiotic relationship, then the eventual domestication of polar bears.
Not, you know, the international scientific community treating scientists like cats.Idk, I think polar bears would domesticate the scientists before scientists domesticated the polar bears.
Always wondered what it would have been like had we domesticated these things
These limbs were adapted for efficient long-distance pacing, rather than the explosive acceleration and high speed pursuits
Terrifying
“Return Eenie or we feed another physicist to the bears. We know you fuckers took him.”
I’ve recently learned that bears absolutely love cocaine. I’m sure that’s relevant here somehow.
I saw that documentary! That is boundary pushing science
Thats why polar bears have white coats
They’re actually clear coats with hollow fur, which means they always have a way to consume said cocaine. They’ve basically evolved to be addicts.
I thought they had white coats because they take their methamphetamine production lab very seriously.
Pretty sure they are just rolling around in cocaine all day, hence why they are the most feared of the bears. Constantly off their head
Neal Stephenson book, Termination Shock.
It depends on the goal. For example it’d work if you want to render every penguin species endangered or worse.
