Polar Bears now eating dolphins thanks to climate change

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Climate change is going to screw up everyone’s diets. For humans, that means less chocolate and more Washington Sauvignon. Strange dietary changes have already affected the oft-symbolized face of global warming, polar bears. For the first time ever, Arctic polar bears were seen feasting on white-beaked dolphins.

The odd behavior was first observed by researchers in 2014 on a small fjord in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, according to a new study published in Polar Research. Since then, six bears have been spotted eating the dolphins in that area. The dolphins were stranded in the Arctic because their migration patterns were disrupted by warmer weather, reports the Independent. Here’s more:

Usually, the dolphins only go up north during the warmer summer — but this year they have arrived in spring.