Unbearable Future
“Two research scientists kill five bears” was the headline splashed across the front page of the Tundra Times on April 8, 1966. The perpetrators were Vagn Flyger and Martin Schein, biologists from Maryland who had just spent three weeks on Alaska’s North Slope trying to tranquilize and tag polar bea...
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ftunivpenn:oai:repository.upenn.edu:hss_papers-1030 2023-05-15T15:39:41+02:00 Unbearable Future Benson, Etienne S 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/33 https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=hss_papers unknown ScholarlyCommons https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/33 https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=hss_papers Departmental Papers (HSS) Animal Sciences Animal Studies Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology Biology Ecology and Evolutionary Biology text 2013 ftunivpenn 2021-01-04T22:05:00Z “Two research scientists kill five bears” was the headline splashed across the front page of the Tundra Times on April 8, 1966. The perpetrators were Vagn Flyger and Martin Schein, biologists from Maryland who had just spent three weeks on Alaska’s North Slope trying to tranquilize and tag polar bears. According to Flyger and Schein’s own later report, they had in fact accidentally killed only four bears (Flyger 1967: 53). Of the thirty-eight they had pursued by aircraft over the sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, they had managed to hit seven with darts laden with a powerful muscle relaxant, of which four died of overdoses and two were unaffected. The only specimen of Ursus maritimus they managed to successfully tranquilize, tag and release was killed soon after by an Inuit hunter who complained that the dye the scientists had used had spoiled the skin. Text Barrow inuit north slope Sea ice Tundra Ursus maritimus Alaska University of Pennsylvania: ScholaryCommons@Penn |
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“Two research scientists kill five bears” was the headline splashed across the front page of the Tundra Times on April 8, 1966. The perpetrators were Vagn Flyger and Martin Schein, biologists from Maryland who had just spent three weeks on Alaska’s North Slope trying to tranquilize and tag polar bears. According to Flyger and Schein’s own later report, they had in fact accidentally killed only four bears (Flyger 1967: 53). Of the thirty-eight they had pursued by aircraft over the sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, they had managed to hit seven with darts laden with a powerful muscle relaxant, of which four died of overdoses and two were unaffected. The only specimen of Ursus maritimus they managed to successfully tranquilize, tag and release was killed soon after by an Inuit hunter who complained that the dye the scientists had used had spoiled the skin. |
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