It would work until the polar bear population collapses in a couple generations due to inbreeding.
And once they eat all the penguins and starve
St. Matthew Island with polar bears instead of reindeer.
4 million buy a freight boat
I work in supply chain but not a complete expert but the smallest cheapest working order freight ship I can find for sale is this one for $6MM, doesn't include licensing, crew, insurance and the dreyage/accessorial on live polar bears is gonna cost you big
https://petronav.net/container-ships-for-sale/container-adilia-i-ex-e-r-auckland
Does it really need to be a big container ship?
Didn't people transport stuff in smaller boats back in the day?
(You still make a valid point though)
Idk, polar bears are really heavy, and it takes a long time to get from one end of the planet to the other, so you want something secure to store the bears in. That means a bigger ship that can handle angry bears hurling themselves at the walls of their cage, because they will wake up during the journey, and they won't be happy.
Just do it while they're hibernating 4head
For some reason, just imagining this is fucking hilarious. OOP on a shipping container being mutinied by dozens of feral pissed of polar bears
they did specify freight! although getting The Cutty Sark back in working order is probably even more costly.
I think the penguins would learn to just swim away, and the bears would starve since they would need to expend a lot of effort for a small bird versus the calorie-dense seals they're used to.
To be fair, some penguins aren't exactly small
That is a king penguin, not even the tallest subspecies (emperors are taller), but what you're looking at is an optical illusion because the penguin is much closer to the camera than the humans.
Damn, well I'm leaving it up anyways.
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plenty of polar bears eat salmon
Polar or grizzly bears... not sure salmon roams the north regions without rivers.
Polar bears can fish (in this video they're catching char, which is closely related to salmon), they're just not used to it.
If they can eat fish, they can probably figure out penguins as well, which honestly aren't too different from seals (slow on land, fast in the water).
So I'm hearing that we move some seals first...
Then you have a penguin population crisis
Tbf we already have that due to glacier melt
Don't penguins already have to survive orcas?
Yeah, in the water. Giving them another apex predator on land won't make them happy, I'm sure.
This reminds me of a friend that once proposed that if we really wanted to mess with Europe we could release a few packs of coyotes
It depends on the goal. For example it'd work if you want to render every penguin species endangered or worse.
I was really hoping OP wanted to drop the polar bears on a tropical island. For science.
only if you can find some weird magnetic anomaly and plane crash survivors
They'd probably just turn back into grizzlies eventually.
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