Polar bears are bad bastards and would survive anywhere, even Tournafella.
Doesnāt really matter, Iād batter both of them and turn them into a lionbear stew.
Bandage, can I suggest a new poll - Who would win in a fight between Flano and Kev.
Polar Bears are just brown bears that went too far north.
Itād be able for the heat, it would struggle with catching things to eat though as it isnāt that quick at running.
The Lion would be dead within the hour.
The Polar Bear would win but it wouldnāt last more than a few months.
Manbearlion
Half man, half Lion, half bear.
This is easy
polar bear would be fcuked. Its top of the food chain up in snowland. Heās arrive in Kenya all cock a hoop, piss off a hippo at the watering hole, hippo flips open a can of whup ass and the bear is toast
The Lion would find a way to survive
The lion would instantly recognise the uncouth methods the bear adopted in the North Pole as well and would come up with much more cunning, simplistic and efficient methods.
To catch what?
Seals and penguins.
Heād be waiting a while to catch a penguin in the North Pole
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:lol:
This is not my proudest moment.
Sport can give us a form guide here. In the rarified climate of the NFC North the Bears have been able to survive for many years in the frozen tundra of Soldier Field while the Lions proved to be a complete disaster in that latitude. They scampered indoors the first chance they had and even though that has enabled them to barely survive, they have consistently ended up at the bottom of the food chain as they are completely useless, and certainly almost always devoured by the Bears in their twice yearly mneetings.
In Australia in the 1980s they experimented with putting Bears in an unnatural habitat of Brisbane but it didnāt work out well at all. lasting less than a decade before they went extinct in the warm weather. At the same time the Lions were threatened with going extinct in the colder weather of Melbourne - they migrated North, devoured the out of place Bears and moved directly into their habitat where they have been quite successful for the last 15 years.
Polar bear for the simple fact that lions dont function alone. they dont do the hunting the lionesses doā¦
polar bear has a top running speed of 40kph, not too shabbyā¦
in short mac is completey and utterly wrong
Has he ever been right on here?
Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scottās polar team, are finally being made public.
Details, including āsexual coercionā, recorded by George Murray Levick were considered so shocking that they were removed from official accounts.
However, scientists now understand the biological reasons behind the acts that Dr Levick considered ādepravedā.
The Natural History Museum has published his unedited papers.
Mr Levick, an avid biologist, was the medical officer on Captain Scottās ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He was a pioneer in the study of penguins and was the first person to stay for an entire breeding season with a colony on Cape Adare.
He recorded many details of the lives of adelie penguins, but some of their activities were just too much for the Edwardian sensibilities of the good doctor.
He was shocked by what he described as the ādepravedā sexual acts of āhooliganā males who were mating with dead females. So distressed was he that he recorded the āpervertedā activities in Greek in his notebook.
Graphic account
On his return to Britain, Mr Levick attempted to publish a paper entitled āthe natural history of the adelie penguinā, but according to Douglas Russell, curator of eggs and nests at the Natural History Museum, it was too much for the times.
āHe submitted this extraordinary and graphic account of sexual behaviour of the adelie penguins, which the academic world of the post-Edwardian era found a little too difficult to publish,ā Mr Russell said.
Pages from Dr Levickās notebook with some sections coded in Greek
The sexual behaviour section was not included in the official paper, but the then keeper of zoology at the museum, Sidney Harmer, decided that 100 copies of the graphic account should be circulated to a select group of scientists.
Mr Russell said they simply did not have the scientific knowledge at that time to explain Mr Levickās accounts of what he termed necrophilia.
āWhat is happening there is not in any way analogous to necrophilia in the human context,ā Mr Russell said. "It is the males seeing the positioning that is causing them to have a sexual reaction.
āThey are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position.ā
Sexual coercion
Only two of the original 100 copies of Mr Levickās account survive. Mr Russell and colleagues have now published a re-interpretation of Mr Levickās findings in the journal Polar Record.
Mr Russell described how he had discovered one of the copies by accident.
"I just happened to be going through the file on George Murray Levick when I shifted some papers and found underneath them this extraordinary paper which was headed āthe sexual habits of the adelie penguin, not for publicationā in large black type.
āItās just full of accounts of sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex, and finishes with an account of what he considers homosexual behaviour, and it was fascinating.ā
The report and Mr Levickās handwritten notes are now on display at the Natural History Museum for the first time. Mr Russell believes they show a man who struggled to understand penguins as they really are.
āHeās just completely shocked. He, to a certain extent, falls into the same trap as an awful lot of people in seeing penguins as bipedal birds and seeing them as little people. Theyāre not. They are birds and should be interpreted as such.ā
Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scottās polar team, are finally being made public.
Details, including āsexual coercionā, recorded by George Murray Levick were considered so shocking that they were removed from official accounts.
However, scientists now understand the biological reasons behind the acts that Dr Levick considered ādepravedā.
The Natural History Museum has published his unedited papers.
Mr Levick, an avid biologist, was the medical officer on Captain Scottās ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He was a pioneer in the study of penguins and was the first person to stay for an entire breeding season with a colony on Cape Adare.
He recorded many details of the lives of adelie penguins, but some of their activities were just too much for the Edwardian sensibilities of the good doctor.
He was shocked by what he described as the ādepravedā sexual acts of āhooliganā males who were mating with dead females. So distressed was he that he recorded the āpervertedā activities in Greek in his notebook.
Graphic account
On his return to Britain, Mr Levick attempted to publish a paper entitled āthe natural history of the adelie penguinā, but according to Douglas Russell, curator of eggs and nests at the Natural History Museum, it was too much for the times.
āHe submitted this extraordinary and graphic account of sexual behaviour of the adelie penguins, which the academic world of the post-Edwardian era found a little too difficult to publish,ā Mr Russell said.
Pages from Dr Levickās notebook with some sections coded in Greek
The sexual behaviour section was not included in the official paper, but the then keeper of zoology at the museum, Sidney Harmer, decided that 100 copies of the graphic account should be circulated to a select group of scientists.
Mr Russell said they simply did not have the scientific knowledge at that time to explain Mr Levickās accounts of what he termed necrophilia.
āWhat is happening there is not in any way analogous to necrophilia in the human context,ā Mr Russell said. "It is the males seeing the positioning that is causing them to have a sexual reaction.
āThey are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position.ā
Sexual coercion
Only two of the original 100 copies of Mr Levickās account survive. Mr Russell and colleagues have now published a re-interpretation of Mr Levickās findings in the journal Polar Record.
Mr Russell described how he had discovered one of the copies by accident.
"I just happened to be going through the file on George Murray Levick when I shifted some papers and found underneath them this extraordinary paper which was headed āthe sexual habits of the adelie penguin, not for publicationā in large black type.
āItās just full of accounts of sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex, and finishes with an account of what he considers homosexual behaviour, and it was fascinating.ā
The report and Mr Levickās handwritten notes are now on display at the Natural History Museum for the first time. Mr Russell believes they show a man who struggled to understand penguins as they really are.
āHeās just completely shocked. He, to a certain extent, falls into the same trap as an awful lot of people in seeing penguins as bipedal birds and seeing them as little people. Theyāre not. They are birds and should be interpreted as such.ā