No News Day

News are supposed to be news, so everything static and unchanging is mostly left out. In the case of poverty and hunger, this principle implies that it has to be devastating hunger, as opposed to «normal» hunger, before it's «news».

However, this doesn't affect growing, at least not when the thing growing is a polar bear. When polar bears «change» from being cute, small cubs into man-eating carnivores, it's «news». Even though the fact that cubs and puppies ends up being adult animals has been common knowledge for at least as long as I can remember.

Therefore, the fact that what we usually refer to as «growing» also - shockingly - has had an effect on the polar bear Canoute, and that the «cute cub has become a bloodthirsty predator». The «news» article about juvenile growth in polar bears is the most read article at Dagbladet.no for the last 24 hours, with the title: «Here Canoute tries to take a bite of a three-year-old».

(The Canoute picture is a facsimile from Dagbladet.no)