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• %26#039;Marauding%26#039; is hardly the word to use when polar bears go on vacation. They%26#039;re often out on sea cruises, and since ice floes are free, why not?
  
  Seriously, polar bears in Iceland are nothing new. Depending on the ice shelves and how they calve from year to year, it%26#039;s quite possible that they floated across. But polar bears differ from other bears in that they are really more marine animals than land animals. They don%26#039;t get cold, can%26#039;t sink or drown other than in big storms, and it%26#039;s not unusual to see them swimming hundreds of miles from the nearest shore. They are great swimmers and divers. The fact that there are so many of them now indicates that it shouldn%26#039;t be unusual to see them in areas other than the Arctic, Alaska, and Norway which are their natural habitats. They have been seen as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence on occassion.
  
  Maybe more are on the way, maybe not. With polar bears you can%26#039;t fool around...that I know. They are the largest carnivores on earth. Shooting them was the best solution.
  http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test... :
  
  %26quot;Icelandic annals contain fairly frequent reports of polar bears which had been transported to Iceland by polar ice. As might be expected, they were more frequent visitors in past centuries when the ice was more extensive. All the same, they were a rare enough sight to cause a flurry of excitement when word spread of a polar bear in the vicinity. People closed themselves securely in their dwellings while the most daring men joined up to take on the uninvited guest.
  
  There are stories, for example, of the shooting of a polar bear in 1792 in the West Fjords and another in North Iceland. In 1802 two bears came ashore in the Strandir district of the West Fjords. After spending several days visiting fish-storage shacks, one of the bears was killed. Nothing more was heard of the other. In 1874, a number of polar bears came to Iceland; three were killed in the Hornstrandir region of the West Fjords while three came ashore in Mjóifjörður in the East Fjords. Bears have not been known in Iceland since the year 1988, although in 1993 fishermen noticed a polar bear swimming several miles offshore.%26quot;
  
  http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandrevi...
  
  %26quot;Polar bears have visited Iceland every now and then by drifting ice. The oldest record of polar bears in Iceland is from 890, 16 years after settlement, when a farmer in Vatnsdalur spotted a she-bear with two cubs. The last visit was in 1993 when sailors saw a bear swimming off the coast of Strandir. It too was killed.
  
  Polar bears were frequently tamed during the middle ages, but since then, no bear has been captured alive in Iceland. Polar bear skins were very valuable until the polar bears were preserved and the Danish crown was a sole owner of all polar bear skins taken in Iceland until 1900.%26quot;
  
  I%26#039;m ashamed that the police shot them though and didn%26#039;t use tranqulizer darts and transport them back to Greenland.

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  What kind of comments are you looking for? That%26#039;s something that%26#039;s happened. Even those who deny the reality of global warming can%26#039;t deny the fact that the ice platforms are breaking up, and migration of species to different areas is what happens when climates change.

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  we%26#039;ve ruined the planet extremely now time for it to fight back,it%26#039;s just a circle that the Mother Nature has been driving all along.the bear attack thing is just the beginning.