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Caught on Video: Polar Bears Destroy BBC Documentary Cameras
- Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:02pm by
Scott Baker
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BBC documentary cameras are no match, it turns out, for the destructive curiosity of your average polar bear. Producers of the BBC show “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice” thought they could outwit their documentary subjects on the Arctic islands of Svalbard by concealing weather-resistant high-tech cameras inside casings that mimicked the look of ice floes and other snow formations. The idea, apparently, was to capture the unguarded rounds of polar bear life in the species’ natural habitat, in the general style of the successful Animal Planet franchise “Meerkat Manor.”
But the inquisitive bears weren’t taken in by the ruse.
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Comments (82)
Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:26pmGreat footage Blaze. Thank you. Amazing perspective. They‘re smart and cracking the open the round one like it’s a nut, smart! Beautiful creatures we have here on Earth.
Report Post »Cheekymnky2
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:22pmAnd who will pay for the unnecessary deaths of the tens of polar bears who choke on the pieces of plastic and rubber used to cover the sensitive electronics?
Report Post »AZ Roadrunner
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 12:43pmMy thoughts exactly… The video was TOO funny, but I worried that the bears would eat the camera, wires, batteries!
They DID look very heathly and well fed. And I thought the Ice was GONE???
Report Post »albuffer
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:04pmI bet the USA paid for those BBC cameras with funds from the first stimulus bill, so I’m sure they will be replaced with funds just approved in the lame duck package. I am sure Obama can squeeze the funds from the federal government spending of $2.6 million to make sure prostitutes in China drink less on the job. And where is PETA and the EPA on this one?? The last four surviving polar bears in the wild……..eating plastic and styrofoam…oh the pain.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:01pmI thought they (polar bears) were either dead from the heat of global warming or swimming in the warm waters of the arctic? Let me call Al Gore right away and I’ll report back!
Report Post »Miser
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:51pmDo you think the bear smelled a liberal scientist, or just a bad scientist?
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:34pmAs usual liberals( make no mistake about it all associated with the BBC are just that) fail completely while in their minds they are getting things done, while being outsmarted by something they consider themselves superior to.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:23pmThat proves right there that Polar Bears are smart and won’t go exist because of false Global Warming.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:18pmI saw that the “Bristol Cam ” got swallowed because they hid it in a bottle of Captain Morgan’s.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:06pmHere‘s the opener the Polar Bear was trying to break in figuring he’d find a Coca Cola Coke bottle inside and have himself a refreshing drink, better luck next time.
Report Post »Cab Driver Dave
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:52pmEven Polar Bears hate the paparazzi and want their privacy protected.
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:48pmLMAO….the lefties never will learn.
Report Post »Canuck GB Fan
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:43pmLove this video! They are hilarious, putting pressure on it till it cracks open! Not fooled at all..
Report Post »marathon_mom
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:42pmyou can almost hear the polar bear thinking “I’ve had it with the pathetic commericials!”
Report Post »mlimberg
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:38pmI’ll bet he was looking for Al Gore? Something about a bad debt?
Report Post »Furrystoat
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:24pmInterestng that the researchers have such an apparently steep learning curve of their own, in that they repeatedly make their remote cam housings out of quite thin plastic which the bears have no trouble destroying in short order, along with many, many thousands of dollars’ worth of custom electronic and mechanical equipment inside.
I guess the cost doesn‘t matter to them because it’s all Government (Taxpayer) funded and so if they need more equpment they just buy more and the costs are passed on to the taxpayer or, in the case of the BBC, the public TV license holders of the UK. Nobody is going to publicly object to additional funding requests for polar bear research, since so many have been duped into thinking that AGW is a reality and we’re responsible for a supposedly impending polar bear extinction.
Also, those remote cams require high-current batteries, oftentimes liquid / wet-cell ones, which could cause electrical shock to a bear if they’re bitten in a particular way….not to mention the plastic or metal parts of the mechanism and housing which could cause the excruciatingly painful death of a bear if ingested. A person who truly cares about the welfare of the animals would have thought that making the housing quite robust in order to protect the equipment investment as well as the health of the bears would have been a top priority, but when you’re riding the Government gravy train on a lie I suppose these plebian worries get pushed to the back burner.
That being said, the video is still cute ;-)
Report Post »garyganu
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:21pmI hate most nature documentaries because they push a liberal agenda and they are so PHONY. All of the sounds are manufactured.
Animals have no morals. That is why cats often abandon their kittens, monkeys rape each-other and homosexual behavior is present in the wild.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:05pmThese guys were idiots to think that would work. Bears best senses are their NOSES, not their eyes! They could no doubt smell those very strange odors and hear the sounds emanating from those snowballs, icebergs, etc. Only the humans who created them are visually-oriented. Expensive lessons!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:47pmEven the bears think the documentaries suck. Gee, wonder why that is?
Report Post »T-rav
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:41pmSuch a funny video!
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:37pmThis just shows that God created the animals with more logic and brain power than we give them credit for… Maybe they don’t need the ice as much as we think that they do and they will survive/evolve into another bear species that will then evolve into another and so on and so on. Isn‘t God’s Creation wonderful!!!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:44pmThe bears were probably TEAPARTY bears. They know when something isn’t “normal”.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:59pm@Chips1
Any chance we can send the bear’s ambassador to the white house?
Report Post »uncivilized
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:36pm“I said NO PICTURES!!!”
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:07pmPolar Bears are the Sean Penn’s of the Arctic.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:30pmDon’t mess with polar bears. HaHa
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:35pmAgreed, polar bears have only two views on the world, there are polar bears and there is dinner (everything else in the world).
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:27pm@Whitefang
By any chance is your post name based on the story of a wolf called “White Fang”? There are two versions of the story I know of – one is a wolf the other is a huskie by the same name.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:47pmI used to watch a TV show called “The Soupy Sales Show” in the Los Angeles area in the sixties.
Report Post »On the show was a hand puppet called “WhiteFang. I loved that show, it was so funny.
Blacktooth
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:51pmBlacktooth and Whitefang are brothers. Blacktooth was on the show also.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:43pmYour right, I did get the name from the soupy sales show. Remember “Pookie”, he was there also. Funny show!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:28pmThis leads to the question of who is actually fooling who…the scientists fooling the bears or are the scientists fooling the scientists? After all, the scientists are the same ones claiming the increasing number of polar bears means they are approaching extinction and that Global Warming is a bunch of made up garbage.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:27pmOh no! Bad, bad bears!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:50pmLOL .. doing what comes “natural”.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:13pmI wonder what “camera” tastes like? As a Polar Bear. LOL
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:26pmI thought polar bears were almost extinct……according the propaganda machines in the government that want you to pay taxes for naturally-occurring-cyclical global warming!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:34pmGo figure with the polar bears and the global warming that is non existent; Hm, could the scientists who have their own sponsored agenda be making it up?
Please note, the sarcasm is quite intentional.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:45pmDo you think the British version of the EPA (if there is such a thing) will require warning labels for the bears in bearish (their language), saying “Do not eat the machines, dangerous if ingested; eat the humans instead, more fat retention in their bodies.?”
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:58pmI think the polar bear would have been friendlier and less inquisitive about taser defense cam. 150k volts if they got too close. They mistake curiosity for the need to kill and eat anything that moves or makes noise. Those bears have only one reason to investigate the cams. They want to eat. next Cam should be armed with a taser and some bear spray. Stop wasting cash on cameras.
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:59pmPolar Bears are awesome!!!
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:34pmPolar bears? Common BBC, you know the last one was starving to death floating around on Gore’s only ice-burg.
chazman
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:10pmThis is funny as hell!!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:14pmWonder what their budget is for cameras? http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:31pmDuct tape some cams on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Walid Bin Attash and might as well send Eric Holder as well. Might get some good footage of the digestive track of the polar bears.
Report Post »toxic_freedom
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:48pmHAHA so true Joel, we are truly headed for a state of total control. Taxed for air emission, for the heating and cooling of the globe, taxed for working (while those who do not get paid), if we continue down this route there will not be much if anything we are not taxed for.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 11:23pmThe U.S. Geological Survey predicts two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050, based on moderate projections for the shrinking of summer sea ice caused by global warming. The bears would disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Arctic archipelago of Canada and areas off the northern Greenland coast. By 2080, they would disappear from Greenland entirely and from the northern Canadian coast, leaving only dwindling numbers in the interior Arctic archipelago
Report Post »asmith
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 1:19amPolar bears being extinct may be wishful thinking on the part of eviromentalist. The list of things they hate gets longer and longer. The things they love is so short in comparison
Report Post »scguitar
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:17am@JESUS-IS-LORD, do you by chance have an xbox account by the same name?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:11amEven the bears are ticked off about their loss of privacy!!
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:49amGee, who’d a thunk it, a bear looking for his 15 minutes of fame
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