Nasty Nanook

I added another useless bit of trivia to my collection this week: Polar bears will happily eat their own kind.

It's the male bears who indulge in such gruesome grotesquery and they pick off baby polar bears, since grown polar bears aren't so easy to dispatch.

This is supposedly a higher species, a creature of great intelligence, not some google-eyed fish with a brain the size of a booger, that could be expected to do such a thing.

In fact, the big boys will stalk a cub for hours through snow and storm, until the exhausted little thing drops to the ground, unable to go on.

Doesn't seem a wise idea for the survival of one's species.

Then again, lions kill lion cubs, too. Not for food but to ensure that only their specific genes get passed on.

Sometimes, life is beautiful, breaktaking. Sometimes it's disgusting.