Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Another irony...
Frozen bay turns otters into easy prey
PORT HEIDEN: Hunger leads animals to seek food on the tundra.
By ALEX deMARBANAnchorage Daily News
An extra-cold winter on the Alaska Peninsula has frozen sea otters out of the bay and pushed them onto the tundra near Port Heiden where they're easy prey for wolves, humans and hunger.
Some of the starving animals -- with ribs showing -- have waddled or belly-slid several miles inland, residents said. Others have been attacked by dogs near houses, killed by villagers for their hides, or died on sea ice where eagles and foxes pick at their remains.
Frozen bay turns otters into easy prey
PORT HEIDEN: Hunger leads animals to seek food on the tundra.
By ALEX deMARBANAnchorage Daily News
An extra-cold winter on the Alaska Peninsula has frozen sea otters out of the bay and pushed them onto the tundra near Port Heiden where they're easy prey for wolves, humans and hunger.
Some of the starving animals -- with ribs showing -- have waddled or belly-slid several miles inland, residents said. Others have been attacked by dogs near houses, killed by villagers for their hides, or died on sea ice where eagles and foxes pick at their remains.
