I like polar bears, but San Diego might not have the best climate for happy polar bears.
When it’s getting close to Christmas and it is still 80 degrees outside, the polar bears get lazy.
Maybe wild polar bears spend most of their time sleeping. I could Google it. I ought to know this already, because I watch a lot of nature documentaries. But I do know that the polar bears in San Diego spend a lot of time doing this…
And sometimes, even when they are standing up and sniffing around for food, they look like they might be asleep…
I believe the zoo has a live video feed of the polar bears you can look at on the internet. I know they have one for the panda bears.
Yes, I do know that isn’t a panda bear… it is a camel… I was just mentioning the fact that you could watch the panda or polar bears plying on your computer if you want to. I threw in the picture of a camel because that is an animal that likes the weather in San Diego.
And I threw in the llama because he is cute.
Pouring My Art Out 
I believe polar bears in the wild spend quite a bit of their time trying to find food. They spend an inordinate amount of time standing over holes in the ice, waiting for seals to pop their heads up for air – they don’t have a lot of time for sleeping.
I like to sneak up behind them and kick them in the ice hole
There are lots of things I like about you but one is that you still like me regardless of whether others like me or not. Just put that here because I just thought it but yea…my favorite zoo animals are the hyenas… pretty awesome.
that would not have been my guess for favorite animal for you.
what would be your guess
I pictured you more of either a tiger girl, or maybe something cute and fuzzy and cuddly.
I do love tigers but my favorite cat is a snow leopard. Something about their huge crystal blue eyes that make it hard not to want to let them take care of you.
uh… I am sure they could take care of somebody, alright…
HA>>> just got a wordpress ‘stats booming’ message… 68 views in one hour… now who could that be, I wonder.
That would be me *blushes
You know I read when I can… 🙂
I do know that… and I look forward to it. Sometimes I forget what the posts you are commenting on were even about.
What about snakes and monkey’s??
what about them???
I’m surprised you don’t have pics of monkey’s from the zoo..you like monkey’s.
I like snakes 😉
we didn’t make it through the whole zoo
Well pft
Willie is 2… he gets tired…
Ha!
and I am old, so I do too
Me too
yup…ha
I see you have the old fashioned model of polar bears there in San Diego. Up here in Canada where we make them, we are experimenting with a new model – equally nasty but better able to handle San Diego weather. The things we do to keep you Americans happy – Tsk, Tsk Anyway, with the increase in temperature in the north (the Northwest Passage is now open most of the year) and a great reduction in the ice cap, the polar bears have moved further south to try and survive. The warmer temps have also allowed the grizzlies to move futher north – and lo and behold, they found each other. Never, in the history of man have the two habitats overlapped before. And now they do. Aparrently polar bears and grizzlies fell in love, had babies and lived happily ever after. The babies, now, are interesting – some call them Grolars, some call them Prizzlies – myself I think Prizzlies is a bit effeminate for such a beasts and I prefer Grolars. They are a light brown and tolerate higher temps better. They are about the same size as a polar bear and just as mean as a grizzly. AAAnd, because they tolerate warmer temps they are wandering further south than any polar bear ever did.
As soon as we get them perfected, we’ll send you a few for your viewing pleasure. 🙂 Oh, like grizzlies and polar bears, they do eat humans if you give them a chance. 🙂
I want one that is white with dark brown spots… like a cow… with big teeth…
Here you go Art – ask and ye shall receive – a whit bear with brown spots according to Wiki a guy went hunting for a polar bear (we charge the heck out of silly Americans that want to hunt polar bears – it’s pretty much a toss up of who ends up eating whom – Ha!) :”Martell had been hunting for polar bears with an official license and a guide, at a cost of $45,450,[8] and killed the animal believing it to be a normal polar bear. Officials took interest in the creature after noticing it had thick, creamy white fur, typical of polar bears, as well as long claws; a humped back; a shallow face; and brown patches around its eyes, nose, and back, and having patches on one foot, which are all traits of grizzly bears. If the bear had been adjudicated to be a grizzly, the hunter would have faced a possible CAN$1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.[9]” It was a Grolar – designed for Art.
he shot my freakin’ bear???
Well, it was either that or get eaten. Ha! There are more where that one came from. 🙂
I have an awesome joke about bear hunters, but it is not G rated…
I think I know the one – does it involve a tap on the shoulder?
Uh… a little more racy than that… think broke back mountain… with a Grizzly bear… repeatedly… in a very forceful manner…
I was going to say that the bears need to get used to the weather. You beat me to it.! This having to work stuff …
Are there really hybrids? Yes there are. I wasn’t positive you weren’t joking so I went to the almighty Google. I just hope these Grolars don’t eat dogs…
I bet they eat whatever they feel like.
Yikes!
yup
Oh great, just great. I hope these Grolars don’t cross-breed with mice to produce a hybrid as and big and scary as bears and as populous as mice.
Well, it might be a male mouse and female Grolar, but i don’t think it would work the other way around. ha! After all, size doesn’t matter does it?
That is a mental image I will not soon be rid of…
What about flying crack squirrel grolars???
I have to constantly remind myself that things like polar bears/panda bears/lions/tigers et al would most likely kill me if I gave into the urge I have to hug them……
yes, they would. Everybody should read that chapter about zoos in my second sci fi novel.
Our polar bears spend a lot of time swimming and we give them large blocks of ice to play with that they bat around all over the place. I don’t think I’ve seen them sleeping all that much. It never gets very cold here either.
They do like to swim in the cold water, and play with the ice. I may have been overstating the case a little. I like to tease the people who live where they have real winter weather.
Hee hee we have about 3 days of winter weather a year some times as much as a week. When it happens the entire city shuts down. Even if they think it might possibly happen they shut down the whole city. It’s rather comical.
I know exactly what you mean.