Wolves Rode Icebergs To Falkland Islands Say Biologists, Reaffirming Darwin’s Hypothesis
November 16, 2009
Biologists say that testing DNA samples proves that wolves that once inhabited the Falkland Islands when Charles Darwin visited them in 1835, must have gotten there from someplace else. Darwin had surmised the wolves traveled on icebergs.
“A large, wolf-size animal could perhaps live on a large iceberg with penguins and sea birds and maybe seals – enough prey to survive the voyage – where a vegetarian could not do that very well,” Wayne said.
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Tom Remington
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Wow, Walt would like to hear of this.
I’m glad everything works out so well and happily ever-after. Science has come soooo far these days of Disney did us, didn’t he?
It was the wolves that taught the polar bears to ride iceburgs. It makes wolves mad as hell they can’t catch ‘em. Now, there’s more polar bears than ever before so it’s law suit time on the fedicators of lies.
It’s very heavy traffic these days thru the Straits with so many animals using the iceburgs for travel. More iceburgs should be available for polar bears, now that the seals can’t reach them.
So far; Polar bears
Seals
Wolves
I wouldn’t be surprised if moose started using iceburgs shortly. This science stuff is getting better all the time. When recess is over, the kids will come back in and work on more science .
I thought it was Coca-Cola that taught polar bears to use icebergs? Al Gore taught them how to use a condom, right?
Coca-cola got ‘em diabetes. Gore got ‘em unemployment compensation.