Interfering With Nature

[cecil39]

after watching quite a lot of wildlife films on tv, I am confused as to the reasons for not helping animals or birds in distress, eg not giving food to a starving polar bear and her cub, even when this is possible, "because this would be interfering" when the poor things have already been doped, measured, and had their young handled and wieghed, surely "interfering" by saving their lives by providing a meal to boost their strength to see them through to their next kill, would not be a bad thing and would surely not be enough to make them "dependant" on humans? if you were there and could help, could you or should you just turn your back and leave them to starve?should we even be feeding the birds?

[emmie]

mother nature is raw, and animals do eat one another to survive, humans do it because they can, for fun, in war, and for greed.

[emmie]

not eat one another, but kill indiscriminately, sorry about that...

[wildwood]

This is how evolution works. If the bear failed to put on enough fat for the winter she will have young with the same tendencies. The bears that do make it will have pass their genes to the next generation etc.

Feeding any starving bear only prolongs the agony, except when their hunger has been caused by human damage to their habitat.
The polar bears that come into the human habitat in Canada breed more prolific and have more cubs and so the trouble starts.