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The HN title should reflect Nature's: "Polar bear population discovered that can survive without sea ice" These are not polar bears that have adapted to the cu
by altacc 4y ago
The HN title should reflect Nature's: "Polar bear population discovered that can survive without sea ice"
These are not polar bears that have adapted to the current, rapid loss of sea ice due largely to anthropogenic climate change. This is colony of polar bears that have been living in the same unusually small territory for 200 years due to some other reason. Currently there are 27 of them. They still hunt from ice, which has calved off a glacier, but they don't stray far from their terriroty.
All the other polar bears in the Artic, who hunt from sea ice and travel extensively, are severely under treat due to loss of habitat.
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- dang 4y agoI changed the title because people were misparsing the original and complaining about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782159. I don't see how the changed title carries the implication you're objecting to, so have left it for now.