Nicklen, 49, wanted to show people what a starving polar bear really looked like – he wanted to make a scientific data point something real. All of which makes the viral images of a fur-and-bones polar bear particularly striking. (The viral video of the polar bear, he noted, has been slowed from normal speed.) “Of course we’re upset.” But feeding the polar bear would not only prolong its misery, he said, it would have been illegal. And “for me to take a gun up to that polar bear and kill it, now you’re looking at jail.”This is not thefirst time a downtrodden polar bear has captured the hearts of humans.

Source: New Strait Times December 12, 2017 03:11 UTC