Month: February 2018

stability:

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For those commenting about it, no, the polar bear did not die just because of being kept in California.

The San Diego Zoo keeps two polar bears, and the way they keep the bears healthy is they put the bears on a low-fat diet. The bears have considerably less body fat than wild bears, which means they don’t have as much insulation, since they don’t need the fat to insulate them against the frigid cold. The bears look thinner than wild polar bears, since they are, but they’re perfectly healthy and their weight is stable. Because of their lower body fat, they’re comfortable in the heat, and have their pool to retreat into when it gets too hot. In fact, the zoo has to heat their pool in the winter or they won’t go into it. Having the bears on a low-fat diet is much easier and more reliable than chilling the entire enclosure. That’s how a good zoo handles polar bear care. 

SeaWorld is not a good zoo. 

unicornempire:

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.