The three cubs pictured above are believed to be the first set of polar bear triplets born in captivity. |
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The Inuit were cutting up a walrus and packing the meat when a polar bear just showed up from nowhere. |
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Make the holidays extra special for those on your gift list by sending them a polar bear or snowy owl gift adoption today. |
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I'd been meaning to write a piece on it for years, ever since I read that someone had made a panda out of a black bear and a polar bear. |
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This spells bad news not only for Arctic peoples but for species like the polar bear, which hunts seals on the sea ice. |
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I will do this with the passion of a wild animal, such as the leopard or cheetah, or perhaps the polar bear. |
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The biggest enemies of the Arctic hare are the fox, the polar bear, the wolverine, and the ermine. |
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The largest are the carnivorous polar bear, and arctic wolf and the herbivourous barren-land caribou and muskox. |
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If you want to see the whole bag of tricks, consider the ultimate winter animal, the polar bear. |
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We had seen whales, narwhals, polar bear, seals, walrus, musk ox, and countless other natural wonders. |
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Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago. |
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Using a similar approach, we examined annual growth rings and wood structure in krummholz black spruce situated adjacent to polar bear dens. |
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The polar bear may surpass the Alaskan grizzly in size, with the maximum recorded weighing 726 kg. |
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One of the earth's largest and most powerful carnivores, the polar bear is found in all the world's arctic seas and coastal lines. |
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A 500-millimeter lens enabled him to photograph a mother polar bear and her two cubs from a reasonably safe distance. |
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It has been estimated that an individual polar bear will cover an area equal to 259,000 square kilometres during its lifetime. |
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I ate 72 kilos of fish which is only slightly less than the average polar bear. |
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Loss of southern pupping areas due to inadequate or highly variable ice conditions may reduce these species as polar bear prey. |
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Aside from humans, their principal enemies are the polar bear and killer whale. |
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The Arctic teems with life, from its largest predators, the killer whale and the polar bear, to small birds like the tiny Arctic tern. |
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Cher was dressed in what looked like an inside out polar bear complemented by a fetching Egyptian headdress. |
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Prowling the ice pack, a polar bear hunts for seals during summer's thaw, or take advantage of the open water to seek food. |
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Big predator species such as the polar bear and wolf signify the biological health of the Arctic ecosystem. |
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Like the polar bear, the groundhog, and other creatures of the wild, professional eaters have internal barometers, delicately calibrated to different times of the year. |
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Norway's polar bear population will be the subject of a census this year. |
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In November, two people were mauled in an unusual polar bear attack in the center of a town near Hudson Bay in Canada. |
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From Adele Dazeem to the cutest polar bear cub in the world, take a look at this week's best viral videos. |
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The Toronto Zoo polar bear cub has been a fixture of this video blog since he first graced the world with his adorable presence. |
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Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear. |
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I wander out onto the terrace, sniff green tea leaves as they brew, touch balls made of snowy flowerets, gaze at gold tickling the lake's skin, peaks clad in polar bear white. |
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Despite this, the polar bear population continued to decline and by 1973, only around 1000 bears were left in Savalbard. |
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In 2010, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment published a strategy for polar bear conservation in Russia. |
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According to the World Wildlife Fund, the polar bear is important as an indicator of Arctic ecosystem health. |
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Their concentrations in polar bear tissues continued to rise for decades after being banned as these chemicals spread through the food chain. |
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Oil and gas development in polar bear habitat can affect the bears in a variety of ways. |
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These legends reveal a deep respect for the polar bear, which is portrayed as both spiritually powerful and closely akin to humans. |
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Vehicle license plates in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada are in the shape of a polar bear. |
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The animated television series Noah's Island features a polar bear named Noah as the protagonist. |
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Spitsbergen shares a common polar bear population with the rest of Svalbard and Franz Joseph Land. |
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Other marine mammals include walrus, Steller sea lion, northern fur seal, orca and polar bear. |
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After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent tail. |
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This is not an albino or a polar bear, but a rare, North American black bear. |
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Political comic Will Durst thinks Bush is making less sense than a polar bear sipping a sloe gin fizz on a lawn chair. |
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Winners will receive a plush polar bear cub and a Zoo family membership so they can come visit the cub for free all year long. |
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During 1989, I had the good fortune to bag a polar bear, Quebec caribou, Roosevelt elk, and Alaska brown bear. |
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Ancient hybridization and an Irish origin for the modern polar bear matriline. |
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Ontario protects about 150 threatened and endangered species, including polar bear, chimney swift, butternut and wolverine. |
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Why do the globalist always roll out the same photo of the same polar bear sitting on the same piece of floating ice? |
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The largest predator on land is the polar bear, while the brown bear is the largest predator on the Norwegian mainland. |
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The polar bear is also a predator, though it prefers to hunt for marine life from the ice. |
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The polar bear is well adapted for hunting Arctic seals and walruses, particularly pups. |
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Antarctic seals are more vocal on land or ice than Arctic seals due to a lack of terrestrial and pagophliic predators like the polar bear. |
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In contrast, both otters and the polar bear are much less adapted to aquatic living. |
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The evolutionary pressure of polar bear predation on seals probably accounts for some significant differences between Arctic and Antarctic seals. |
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Both the orca and the polar bear are also most likely to prey on walrus calves. |
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However, even an injured walrus is a formidable opponent for a polar bear, and direct attacks are rare. |
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As well as the exact number of overall brown bear subspecies, its precise relationship to the polar bear also remains in debate. |
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Under some definitions, the brown bear can be construed as the paraspecies for the polar bear. |
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Mosses, lichens, and scanty bushes around the coasts serve as food to the deer and musk oxen, which in turn are hunted by the polar bear. |
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There is a genetically distinct polar bear population associated with the Barents Sea. |
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This technique is also used by the polar bear, who hunts by seeking holes in the ice and waiting nearby. |
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The white, pigmentless fur of arctic mammals, such as the polar bear, may reflect more solar radiation directly onto the skin. |
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The polar bear was previously considered to be in its own genus, Thalarctos. |
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The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and adjacent land masses as far south as Newfoundland. |
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The polar bear is a marine mammal because it spends many months of the year at sea. |
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The only other bear of a similar size to the polar bear is the Kodiak bear, which is a subspecies of brown bear. |
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The polar bear is among the most sexually dimorphic of mammals, surpassed only by the pinnipeds such as elephant seals. |
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Compared with its closest relative, the brown bear, the polar bear has a more elongated body build and a longer skull and nose. |
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Many attacks by brown bears are the result of surprising the animal, which is not the case with the polar bear. |
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Whereas brown bears often maul a person and then leave, polar bear attacks are more likely to be predatory and are almost always fatal. |
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Michio Hoshino, a Japanese wildlife photographer, was once pursued briefly by a hungry male polar bear in northern Alaska. |
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A polar bear may charge a group of walruses, with the goal of separating a young, infirm, or injured walrus from the pod. |
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The polar bear is the apex predator within its range, and is a keystone species for the Arctic. |
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The polar bear may swim underwater for up to three minutes to approach seals on shore or on ice floes. |
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However, since polar bear fur has always played a marginal commercial role, data on the historical harvest is fragmentary. |
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If a sport hunter does not kill a polar bear before his or her permit expires, the permit cannot be transferred to another hunter. |
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In August 2011, Environment Canada published a national polar bear conservation strategy. |
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Is it the gulper eel, the polar bear, the humming bird or, even, the iguana? |
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They ate the meat of walrus, ringed seal, bearded seal, beluga whale, caribou, polar bear, muskoxen, birds, and fish. |
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Fellow agents include harp seal demolitions expert Short Fuse, snowy owl intelligence analyst Eva and plucky polar bear Corporal. |
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Correlations have even been observed in contaminant-exposed species such as polar bear and greater scaup ducks, from geographically remote Arctic regions. |
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Shock and Penguins of battle Dr Fellow agents include harp seal demolitions expert Short Fuse, snowy owl intelligence analyst Eva and plucky polar bear Corporal. |
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The polar bear and the caribou haven't arrived yet, but there's a Kodiak bear, an Arctic fox, a pair of gorgeous snowy owls, a few ptarmigans and a beautiful white wolf. |
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Loss of polar ice habitat is causing a rapid decline in the numbers of ivory gull, Pacific walrus, ringed seal, hooded seal, narwhal, and polar bear. |
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Stunning page portraits of mammals include the American bison, red deer, the warthog, a hippo, a wolf, a sloth, a whale, kangaroos, a polar bear, and more. |
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It was named after a polar bear that was seen swimming nearby. |
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Whereas northern communities kill all the polar bears they are permitted to take each year, only half of sport hunters with permits actually manage to kill a polar bear. |
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Because of the way polar bear hunting quotas are managed in Canada, attempts to discourage sport hunting would actually increase the number of bears killed in the short term. |
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In Russia, polar bear furs were already being commercially traded in the 14th century, though it was of low value compared to Arctic fox or even reindeer fur. |
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Only one case of a polar bear with rabies has been documented, even though polar bears frequently interact with Arctic foxes, which often carry rabies. |
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Most terrestrial animals in the Arctic can outrun the polar bear on land as polar bears overheat quickly, and most marine animals the bear encounters can outswim it. |
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The polar bear kills the seal by biting its head to crush its skull. |
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The polar bear is an excellent swimmer and often will swim for days. |
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The 42 teeth of a polar bear reflect its highly carnivorous diet. |
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Historically, the polar bear has also been known as the white bear. |
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The party was attacked by a polar bear, and two sailors were killed. |
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Despite averaging somewhat smaller sizes, brown bears tend to dominate polar bears in disputes over carcasses, and dead polar bear cubs have been found in brown bear dens. |
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One of the most notable species present is the polar bear, whose population in the Barents Sea region is genetically distinct from other polar bear subpopulations. |
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This can be an important source of income for small communities, as guided hunts bring in more income than selling the polar bear hide on markets. |
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The polar bear also hunts by stalking seals resting on the ice. |
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The few native land mammals in Greenland include the polar bear, arctic fox, reindeer, arctic hare, musk ox, collared lemming, ermine, and arctic wolf. |
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The varieties that exist today, distributed on all the continents, range in size from the least weasel, with a body mass of about 275 g, to the 450-650 kg polar bear. |
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Audience is invited to trigger the oil pistol to activate the device which leads to hang the polar bear to death and to have the Tuvaluan marine turtle beheaded. |
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At Williams Island the crew encountered a polar bear for the first time. |
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It's in poem form and tells you how to do polar bear dentistry, why you should never try to outspit a spitting cobra, and what bonnetheads, nurses and soupfins have in common. |
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