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Warm Russian Winter Drives Bears Out of Bed
Story Date: 13/1/2005
MOSCOW - Russia's winter is so warm that a bear in a zoo has woken from her hibernation two months early, while another hasn't gone to sleep at all, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
The normally ferocious Russian winter, the bane of invaders from Napoleon to Hitler, has been unusually mild this year with temperatures hitting record seasonal highs.
"For a second day we are organising extra observation of a female black bear, which has woken up because of the warmth," a spokesman for the zoo in Russia's second-largest city of St Petersburg told the agency.
"The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."
Temperatures in European Russia are forecast to fall by the end of this week, and return from a current balmy 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) to below freezing.
Warm Russian Winter Drives Bears Out of Bed
Story Date: 13/1/2005
MOSCOW - Russia's winter is so warm that a bear in a zoo has woken from her hibernation two months early, while another hasn't gone to sleep at all, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
The normally ferocious Russian winter, the bane of invaders from Napoleon to Hitler, has been unusually mild this year with temperatures hitting record seasonal highs.
"For a second day we are organising extra observation of a female black bear, which has woken up because of the warmth," a spokesman for the zoo in Russia's second-largest city of St Petersburg told the agency.
"The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."
Temperatures in European Russia are forecast to fall by the end of this week, and return from a current balmy 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) to below freezing.
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Re: "The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."
Mon, January 24, 2005 - 10:34 AMAh yes, this was all over the news this weekend. (I was hibernating on the couch wtih the flu)
The bears at the zoo will be taken care of for sure, its the bears in the wild that are going to see the big effect. The concern is for weaker cubs in the spring. Hopefully the spring and summer will be good for them so they have a chance at survival. It would be awful if a single event of strange climate wiped out the wild population. -
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Re: "The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."
Mon, January 24, 2005 - 11:10 AM"It would be awful if a single event of strange climate wiped out the wild population."
It won't be the first time it's happened on this earth:
www.cbc.ca/story/scienc...n-050121.html
Global warming caused mass extinction, studies suggest
Last Updated Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:31:58 EST
CBC News
SEATTLE - Global warming – not a cataclysmic collision with an asteroid – may have nearly snuffed out life on Earth 250 million years ago, two recent reports suggest.
The biggest mass extinction in the planet's history, known as the "Great Dying," eliminated 90 per cent of marine life and nearly three-quarters of all plants and animals on land.
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