A Canadian photographer was stunned when she went back through the photos she snapped of a polar bear in her backyard to find it praying in front of a cross.
Jessica Andrews, 22, learned the bear was roaming around the Wesleyville, Newfoundland on an island behind her house from an online alert Wednesday.
Andrews didn’t even notice the photo of the praying bear until she went through the 200 photos after the shoot.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4368188/Polar-bear-caught-praying-cross.html#ixzz4cvclXNNh
Surely, this photo will end up in Al Gore’s slide show, and be used in creative ways by WWF and other rent seeking outfits under the guise of something like “polar bear prays for the Arctic”. But, I thought we might find some other, obviously funny captions from our community of readers.
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Dr. Dave nailed this one first so I felt his post should go up here…
“The truly amazing thing is where this bear was seen… Wesleyville, Newfoundland. Not being an expert on Newfoundland, I did a search of Google Maps to see just where “Wesleyville” is located. I was surprised to find out how far away from the Arctic this place is… its latitude is only slightly higher than the northern tip of Maine!”
Turns out the former seal hunting town is just north of the Provincial capital of St John’s with a population of 200,000. Guess we know what he was praying for! 😉
http://www.all-canada.net/golfing/images/map_newfoundland_a.gif
The Canadian government says there are 7.4 million East coast Harp seals which is around 6 times greater than the population of the 1970’s. (Thank you Pamela Anderson).
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/seal-phoque/seal-species-eng.htm
They like to eat cod, halibut and capelin eating around 4-6 percent of their body weight daily. Since the average seal weight is around 300 pounds we are looking at 15 lbs of fish times 7 million or 105 MILLION POUNDS PER DAY!
Environmental scientists claim that the seals are not responsible for the declining cod stocks. That’s the fault of… wait for it… global warming!
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/collapse-new-england-s-iconic-cod-tied-climate-change
And 2,000 kilometers or 1,300 miles from the arctic circle.
Here is a map of polar bear range from the Canadian government.
Oh Lord let them read the facts and leave us the #%*& alone.
Malcom, Thank you for posting the polar bear range map from the Canadian government. That analysis was from 2014. I wonder if there is any update since then?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Polar bear? Aren’t they extinct?
Dear Bear God . . . please help me find a good tasty human to eat. I’m starving. Amen.
God Bless Pappa Bear, and Momma Bear and thank you lord for that tasty Goldilocks treat.
Janice… that’s one fat bear!
See how well the power of prayer works!
Doesn’t this mean there’s a large torpedo shaped thing underneath? Filled with luscious people and free handouts?
I wonder how one gets them to surface?
What’s with all this snow already, can’t you warm this place up a bit. Frig it’s cold!
I’m tired of penguins. Send more enviro tourists.
Uh, that would be seals, not Penguins, wrong pole.
That’s the point. It is silly and mocking at the same time!
Polar bears are VERY strong swimmers.
Not after God answers his prayers! 😉
Climate refugee penguins.
+1
AAA, Janice!
Dear God, please get me out of this you forsaken frozen wasteland, and let me roam among those who find me cuddly. Berkeley will do.
Please Dr Mann can we stop taking pictures now?
Has anyone seen Griff, is he up here.
Burrrrp!
There’s too much ice! Please send open water!
this stake is perfect to mark my territory, maybe I should relieve myself
“Hmm, I’m sure there was some meat hanging here yesterday.”
beat me to it!
“Bless us o Lord, for these thy gifts, from thy bounty, through Christ, amen”
Ok kids, eat the pink ones.
The bear is praying for the Greens – “Forgive them Lord. They know not what they do.”
Greens are an essential part of any diet.
…. and please, please, make Susan Crockford and Jim Steele stop telling the truth about us. Okay. Okay! I KNOW you hate lies, but (whine), just this once? We need, er, I mean, want those Coke deals.
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THIS THREAD IS GRRREAT! So many fun comments above mine. Thank you, Anthony!
Soft drinks are for kids. We need POLAR BEER commercials… “brewed using the finest Arctic glacier water”.
So why do we wonder where the sea ice goes! 🙂
It follows the A & B ice!
Should Coke Deals be Kock Deals
DANG AUTOCORRECT
Should Coke Deals be Koch Deals
I pray that Coca Cola will stop putting CO2 in their pop as it is causing global warming and all our ice is melting, and we will starve …. boo hoo………..
Dear God, can’t you make then go away and leave me alone?
I’m looking for organic matter to consume, I need it to survive. You know, the matter containing Carbon that was extracted from CO2 thru photosynthesis.
I’ve never seen one of these before. I wonder if it could be a bear feeder?
More likely just using the human worshipping pole as a scratching post , to sharpen his/her nails.
“God, save us from well-intentioned humans. Amen.”
That reminds me – its time to hunt for Easter eggs.
dear bear-doG: please send Bill McKibben and some climatologists up here now; before it ices up and they can’t travel. I’ll be all cuddly, really I will. I promise. And it’ll be a nice change from seals. mmmmm
Is this a pole I bear?
Obviously, this is Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.
The winner.
As I stretch up high to pray
I beg you let warm weather stay
Ice and snow and freezing cold
Makes joints all stiff when you are old
Where are the seals to make me fat
Or one big Mann. What’s Up With that?
You get my vote for winner.
+1
Winner.
Winner by a mile.
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Rhythm slightly off. Suggest “Makes joints stiff when you are old, Where are seals to make me fat”
Wrong, Don. The rhythm is perfection, this is proper poetry and the best applicant. See p
Please let us have diminished sea ice for easier seal hunting.
“… and lead us not into environmental alarmism …”
Let’s see, how did that class go? Grab pole, wait for music, wrap legs, hang upside down, collect dollars.
“Resurrection” — what does that mean? And where is my dinner?
Would it kill you to shine a little sun here and warm this place up a bit ?