Why Wednes Weeps:

[wednes]

I'd like to preface this by saying that while I am not one of those annoying, self important PETA people, I love bears for thier wisdom, constancy, loyalty, resoucefulness...I could go on all day. And I really thought there was something wonderful and magical afoot when I saw the first pic of this bear and her mom. Even if it is not a true albino, a white "black" bear is a remarkable thing.

Remember these guys? An albino black bear is a rarity, but as the photographs displayed above attest, an infant bear of that uncommon variety is what people started spotting near the Chemawawin Cree Nation in Manitoba (about 250 miles northwest of Winnipeg) around May 2004. Visitors to the area began reporting to conservation officials that they had seen the snow-white cub roaming the First Nations community with its mother amidst a pack of black bears, sending tourists flocking to Oscar's Point at the northern tip of Lake Winnipegosis to catch a glimpse of the unusual little bruin. Unfortunately, the cub's celebrity ultimately helped bring about a tragedy that befalls many bears. Visitors began feeding the mother and her cub, acclimatizing the bears to humans and their food, and on 11 July 2004 the mother was struck and killed by a vehicle as the pair of bruins was being fed by highway motorists. The female cub, unlikely to survive on its own, was subsequently taken to a new home at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. Its light-colored fur had already begun to darken by then, indicating that the cub was not a true albino but rather, as sometimes happens with black bears, was born with a temporarily white coat that gradually darkens as the animal matures. (pic and text courtesy of Snopes.com)

How is it possible that anyone could be old enough to drive without having heard the expression: Do Not Feed the Bears!??!?

"Hey, that bear looks different, let's use the power of human stupidity to fuck up it's life," said the masses.

I fucking hate human beings sometimes.

Comments

Sadly,

[squee1973.livejournal.com]

People are just FUCKING RETARTED...and don't think of the consequences of their actions.

*I weep with you*

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

Wow.. I'm sad to hear about the bear. However I am glad that the albino won't be lonely and singled out. Someone suggested to me that it would.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Actually, albino's almost never make it in the wild because they do not possess the nautral camoflage they need to evade predators until adulthood. So I kind of figured this little lady would end up in a zoo. I wasn't counting on Canadians being so spectacularly stupid.

[groovesinorbit]

I am not one of those annoying, self important PETA people

I am, although only in spirit. Haven't belonged in a long time. Bears are cool, as are animals in general (in my opinion). People are stupid--there's just no other way around it.

*sigh*

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I think the idea behind PETA is a good one. Of course we should be respectful of animals, but there are PETA people who think all non-vegans are bastards and that no one should have pets. That's a tad too over-the-top for me.

[groovesinorbit]

Well, yes. There are those folks. People get religion, they get judgmental. I eat meat, though. I go so far as to think that everything alive has consciousness of some sort, so to choose between a cow or a shrimp or a carrot is really only picking nits. Something's gotta die for someone else to eat. And I have pets--critters that would have ended up being euthanized if I hadn't stepped in.

But the way animals are treated on factory farms and in experimental labs and chemical testing, etc., etc. And just the human attitude that we can speak, so we're obviously better. Even though, a lot of humans really aren't any "smarter". Gets the PETA juices flowing, that does.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

That's certainly true.

[jezaimee.livejournal.com]

The importance of human beings, showing their superiorority by being absoulute morons.

Don't people get arrested for secondary poaching or something. That dumbfuck should have been papercut to death.... >:(

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not so outraged at the guy driving the car. I'm assuming that was unintentional. However, people should know by now how dangerous it is to feed bears: for the bears. Feeding bears teaches them to associate people with food, so instead of being afraid of people, they approach them aggresively. This almost always leads to the bear having to be put down, or like this case, hit by a car, because they were conditioned by gawkers to think people=food.

[emperorsamir.livejournal.com]

dumbasses

[ex-jenniepan481.livejournal.com]

I am so sickend by the people in that story..poor bears!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I know...I almost didn't post it because it was so upsetting.

But dammit, people obviously still need reminding not to feed wild animals in nature.

[ex-jenniepan481.livejournal.com]

I dont understand how people can be so stupid! my six year old son and nine year old daughter know not to feed any wild animals!!! These people have no excuse and should have to wear a sign warning others of their stupidity!

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Damn people. Pretty bears.

[anarchys-savior.livejournal.com]

People really are dumb. It worries me.