• DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        The bears digestive track. I went to Alaska for a week a while back and we actually learned about how the local bears eat. Eventually a bear’s canines (or whatever teeth they use for meat tearing) will wear down to stubs making it impossible for them to eat meat. When this happens they will start to exclusively eat plant matter. Unfortunately this is also what ends up killing them. A young bear typically eats plant matter to slow down their digestive track for the winter. But in the case of an older bear they eat so much that their digestion literally backs up until it kills them

  • rab@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Cute story until you realize the bear will be euthanized

    • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t “euthanasia” apply to “individuals getting help to fulfill their death wish”? I don’t think the bear wants to die, if anything it will get murdered, as in “premeditated taking of a life, against the target’s wishes”.

      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        You don’t take on a pack of wild gummy bears and come out alive. That bear had a death wish, sure as shootin.

        • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          “Humanely” implies a reason that isn’t just because it behaved not how you wanted it. That’s called “sacrificing” or at best “killing”, like when you want to eat steak but the cow insists on breathing.

          • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t want the bear to die. But that doesn’t change that the word doesn’t imply consent.

            • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              The word literally means “good death”, meaning for a good reason. Consent is one such reason, terminal illness is another, stealing gummy bears… is not.