Maybe they sprayed the bear with something that is purple for her skin condition and it got on the stones and bars.
rocadelpunk
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good callOriginally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Maybe they sprayed the bear with something that is purple for her skin condition and it got on the stones and bars.
that is the worst photoshop job i've seen in awhile.... good for a chuckle...
I think he is right, look and some of the rocks in the water in fornt of the bear their purple too.
and the bars on the gate.
Really? It's that bad, eh? I saw a news clip on CTV. It's real.
Do you not see the puple rocks and bars????
I think he is right, look and some of the rocks in the water in fornt of the bear their purple too.
and the bars on the gate.
Really? It's that bad, eh? I saw a news clip on CTV. It's real.
Do you not see the puple rocks and bars????
0roo0roo
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dude, its sprayed on obviously.
hair is dead, you can't change its color instantly through medication, or else we'd have some edible hair dyes. at best you'd have to wait for new color changed hair to grow and all your old colored hair to fall out. for the bear to lose all its white hair you would have had to wait for months at the very least. the bear was sprayed.
hair is dead, you can't change its color instantly through medication, or else we'd have some edible hair dyes. at best you'd have to wait for new color changed hair to grow and all your old colored hair to fall out. for the bear to lose all its white hair you would have had to wait for months at the very least. the bear was sprayed.
There are such things as topical medications that go on the skin. I don't know about you, but I'm surely not gonna try to rub down a polar bear with some skin cream.
secretanchitman
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No, but I'm saying I've seen it both on CNN and Foxnews shot by different camera crews, I've seen pictures by both reuters and from the link I provided, and when I called Associated Press about to see if they could obtain it to move it across the wires so our paper could run it, they were aware of it and said they were in the process of obtaining a picture. So unless 6 different journalism sources are all in a vast conspiracy to defraud viewers by faking the fur color of a polor bear I think its sufficient to say that it's not digitally altered.
silverpig
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I bet it's real. They probably died the spray stuff so they could tell exactly where they had already sprayed. When we spray our greens at the golf course with fertilizer it's clear, but we put blue dye in it so we can see exactly where the last pass was.
Actually, polar bear hair is not white, it is pigment free and transparent so there is a strong chance it was medicinal in nature and was not sprayed on.
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There is a reason the bear, and the bars, and some of the rocks in the water, are all purple.
The bear is being treated with an antimicrobial agent called gentian violet, which contains a very powerful dye compound called Crystal Violet. It has been around forever for use in the treatment of fungal and yeast infections like candida and ringworm. Its powerfully purple and will stain like nothing you've ever seen except for perhaps ink.
Clearly, the violet stain has rubbed off on to everything the bear has been rubbing against.
Isn't it neat to find out how much you truly do not know?
I get even more informative...
Gentian violet was a very common household remedy not so many years ago, before the advent of modern antifungals. It was particularly common in the treatment of oral candida infections found in breast-feeding babies, known as "thrush". It was not uncommon to see babies with purple mouths and lips and tongues, accompanied by mom who would have a neat purple-stained breast.
Today, gentian violet is used in a number of applicatons, mostly for its staining properties. Surgical skin markers used by surgeons to mark the surgical site use gentian violet as the 'ink'.
I don't, however, know why they chose to use gential violet on the bear when there are better systemic antifungal treatments today. Maybe they figured it would kill two birds with one stone; treat the bear's dermatophyte infection and draw visitors.
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