Polar Bears Are Irish

One brown female bear in Ireland who mated with a white bear is the maternal ancestor of the polar bears of today
And though they now live in the Arctic from their ancestral homeland far away
The famous scientists and genetic experts Mark Thomas and Beth Shapiro from skeletal remains their original ancestor did trace
To Ireland in the north Atlantic as their original homeplace

At the end of the ice age they left Ireland and retreated north with the ice
Forced to leave their ancestral homeland for them not any other choice
Climate Change in it's many forms has been happening for centuries far longer than anyone seem to know
The white bear a creature of cold climates to survive needs the ice and the snow

The white bears do seem in trouble since the polar ice caps are melting fast
In a century from now in an ice free Arctic marine bears will be of the past
The Arctic is their last stronghold from there for them nowhere to go
To for them to insure their survival the warming climate is nowadays their fatal foe

The mighty white bears of the Arctic that have inspired story and rhyme
Retreated at the end of the ice age to follow the ice out of Ireland going back thousands of centuries in time
They may be creatures of the cold north where on the sea ice they range free
But scientists claim polar bears are Irish as Irish as Irish can be.