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Thread: 'Nat Geo' Photographer Admits Viral Photo Of Polar Bear 'Dying From Climate Change' Is False

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    The thing that bothers me is why isn't the link coming from a major news outlet? They never report this stuff. But you can be sure they reported the original story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    It is deceptive, without a veterinarian to examine the bear, it's impossible to know what ailed this particular bear.
    It's still a guess (which you may call deceptive if you want), if the ice had melted recently. In any other case it would be purely deceptive. Which is sometimes what photographers do, they use photos to illustrate something that they know that the photo had nothing to do with.

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    It is deceptive, without a veterinarian to examine the bear, it's impossible to know what ailed this particular bear.
    The bear may have eaten Nanook.

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    That polar bear voted for Hillary

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    It's still a guess (which you may call deceptive if you want), if the ice had melted recently. In any other case it would be purely deceptive. Which is sometimes what photographers do, they use photos to illustrate something that they know that the photo had nothing to do with.
    I had a friend with a horse. Her horse was very old and thin. Two women went onto her property and took pictures of the "emaciated" horse and made a claim that she was abusing the animal. Totally not true but she had to fight them anyway. It is something I keep in mind when I see videos with emaciated animals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    I had a friend with a horse. Her horse was very old and thin. Two women went onto her property and took pictures of the "emaciated" horse and made a claim that she was abusing the animal. Totally not true but she had to fight them anyway. It is something I keep in mind when I see videos with emaciated animals.
    We have a couple in our church that raises Clydesdales along with taking in other horses. They told me a story of them having taken in a very old horse that rather than putting it down decided to allow it to live out it’s natural life.
    People stopped to take pics and reported them as abusing the horse. Good grief, all they had to do was look at their champion Clyde’s to realize how crazy they were to assume they were abusing horses. People need to get off their tv, facebook and political cloud and get real...above all else, mind your own business.

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    Looking at a picture nobody can say why this bear died,
    but
    the polar bear population is going down rather quickly. Many are starving, specially female because they loose a lot of weight in winters, and in summer they can not find enough food.
    And they are my favorite animals.
    Maybe the climate is not getting warmer in the last decades, so there must be a different reason why the ice is melting.

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