“từ ngữ của tôi, những gì một con cá lớn” or “my, what a big fish” to the majority of those reading this! Turns out learning Vietnamese is VERY hard, and their words are generally confusing… So if anyone out there is fluent in the language, feel free to comment with tips!
Also, you will all be very glad to know that my posts are now being “beta’d” by my charming and amazing and generally made-of-awesome friend, who’s going by Athena (Greek Goddess of Wisdom, she’s so modest) meaning that you will no longer have to suffer my terrible spelling and grammar! And also thank you to the 85 people who have viewed my blog (which may only be 0.000001% of the human population, but I’m still proud).
Now down to business! If you have read my introductory post, you will have noticed that someone who gets a tiny mention in there is Poly, my one true sole mate who just happens to be a stuffed Polar Bear (but don’t tell him that). He is the one that has suffered through my years of random fact finding and patiently sat there as I fill his polystyrene brain with essential knowledge.
So in dedication to Poly, my dear general public, I’m going to inform you with as much awesome knowledge about Polar Bears that you will ever need to know, and also teach Poly a little bit most about his family and species (who says I’m not a caring mother?)
Voila! That’s Poly! Now seriously down to business…
Firstly, Polar bears are not to be mistaken with penguins (I mean really?) as polar bears live in the Arctic, not the Antarctic! Polar bears are the largest land mammals with the boars (male poly bears) weighing up to 700kg, which put into perspective is equal to 1635 tubs of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, 132 copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, or 1287 copies of the Vietnamese dictionary!
Also, Polar bears are closely related to the brown bear, as they evolved from them hundreds of thousands of years ago (technically meaning that they could breed to made a new form of ‘super-bear’, but anyway…) and the oldest polar bear fossil dates back 110000, which is 130000 years ago (Boffin Busting! My new catchphrase meaning ‘mind blowing’ or similar. So if you’re brave, and fancy a bit of trending, feel free to use in everyday conversation to impress your friends!).
Unfortunately, Polar Bears do not have any super power moves for catching their dinner of seal, with the occasional side order of walrus. So instead they stick to the old fashioned method of just attempting to clasp their prey between their paws and then, well ummm, crushing their skulls. If you’re more interested in how polar bears catch their prey, and want to get into the really gory details, Google is your friend J
Poly is currently looking very shocked at that last fact, and cannot believe that his species could do such a thing, him being so vicious and all…
Although Polar bears are super-efficient killing machines, they can go through very long periods of time without eating, especially just after their cubs are born, where they do not eat anything as there is very little prey, but still provide cubs with milk (so basically, by some very extended logic, polar bears are the Fantine’s of the animal kingdom, and therefore are saints!)
And also quite frankly, I am proud to be best friends with a polar bear, as they are cool (get it, cool? They live in the Arctic? Never mind) and also cutesome (another phrase I’m going to trend, a funky twist of the classic word ‘cute’) animals which are very deserved to be on our planet!
hạt hoàn chỉnh! Or “particle complete” to the rest of my dear general public.
Sushi
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