It would work until the polar bear population collapses in a couple generations due to inbreeding.
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And once they eat all the penguins and starve
St. Matthew Island with polar bears instead of reindeer.
It depends on the goal. For example it'd work if you want to render every penguin species endangered or worse.
Neal Stephenson book, Termination Shock.
You may find you struggle with step 1.
Also step 2. $4MM is not enough to run the kind of vessel needed to go to the poles for the length of time needed.
I've been trying to do step one for years. But my bastard relatives refuse to die, and also refuse to be rich. Selfish I call it.
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Antarctica is generally colder than the Arctic. They would almost certainly be stuck along the coastlines of Antarctica like the penguins are, since the interior average temperatures rival the coldest ones ever recorded in the Arctic. They should be fine there, but then that means they have a very limited distribution and that penguins and seals consequently are always forced to share an environment with the polar bears. Because they're not used to the polar bears, their populations would likely be destroyed, leaving the polar bears to starve. Unlike in the Arctic, too, they would have nowhere to retreat if their food supply ran out. Outward is hundreds of kilometers of ocean, and inward is hundreds of kilometers of unsurvivable desert.
they would have nowhere to retreat if their food supply ran out.
Um. Hello? There are scientists there.
Which means scientific papers, then tourists, then garbage and a symbiotic relationship, then the eventual domestication of polar bears.
Not, you know, the international scientific community treating scientists like cats.
Always wondered what it would have been like had we domesticated these things
These limbs were adapted for efficient long-distance pacing, rather than the explosive acceleration and high speed pursuits
Terrifying
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Etymologists crying and shaking right now at the thought of Antarctica (meaning: without bears) gaining the one animal it's not supposed to have
This comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea the arctic is called that because it was the Greek for 'of the bear' because they used Ursa Major to guide them north. And the the arctic is the most northerly point.
Fucking wild. Mind blown.
And it's a hilarious coincidence that it resulted in the southern most point being Antarctica, as it just happens to be the only continent without bears.
Wdf how are we just learning this?! Can’t they teach it with the continent names??
I'm not saying this will definitely reverse the Earth's polarity and doom all life on earth, but do we really want to take that chance?!
Looks at earth
Well, it probably won't get much worse, and if it does it'll at least be interesting to see.
I read that as entomologist for a second and was really confused
Figured it had something to do with fleas
I'd say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear
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I've recently learned that bears absolutely love cocaine. I'm sure that's relevant here somehow.
I saw that documentary! That is boundary pushing science
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4 million buy a freight boat
I work in supply chain but not a complete expert but the smallest cheapest working order freight ship I can find for sale is this one for $6MM, doesn't include licensing, crew, insurance and the dreyage/accessorial on live polar bears is gonna cost you big
https://petronav.net/container-ships-for-sale/container-adilia-i-ex-e-r-auckland
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I think the penguins would learn to just swim away, and the bears would starve since they would need to expend a lot of effort for a small bird versus the calorie-dense seals they're used to.
So I'm hearing that we move some seals first...
To be fair, some penguins aren't exactly small
The Emperor protects
That is a king penguin, not even the tallest subspecies (emperors are taller), but what you're looking at is an optical illusion because the penguin is much closer to the camera than the humans.
Damn, well I'm leaving it up anyways.
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Would work until the penguin pop. is too small and then they start dying out again
So then part of the program needs to be penguin Viagra to keep the numbers up
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This reminds me of a friend that once proposed that if we really wanted to mess with Europe we could release a few packs of coyotes
Then you have a penguin population crisis
Don't penguins already have to survive orcas?
Yeah, in the water. Giving them another apex predator on land won't make them happy, I'm sure.
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I was really hoping OP wanted to drop the polar bears on a tropical island. For science.
They'd probably just turn back into grizzlies eventually.
only if you can find some weird magnetic anomaly and plane crash survivors
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