@yoxics There is a 'habituation' explanation for this but in short the bears don't gaf about them they're just there to farm salmon and get fat👍 so dw people
@yoxics for context: they're on Geographic Harbor, a special place on earth where you can do bear viewing (there were like a dozen bears in this clip). The guide brought bear spray & he said on his 10+ years experience on this place he hasn't used the spray a single time. +
@Nasdorachi@yoxics whoever needs context: they're on Geographic Harbor, a special place on earth where you can do bear viewing (there were at least a dozen bears in this clip). The guide brought bear spray & he said on his 10+ years experience on this place he hasn't used the spray a single time.
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
@vctpacific I'm 50-50 on this, it's fair for GenG because it's the game's fault and they're not abusing, but it sucks for GE because you'll forever wonder the 'what if'. It's just really unlucky overall, the game devs have to be more thorough on every patch forward.