Polar Bears can detect another bear with their excellent sense of smell, male bears can spend weeks tracking the scent of a female who is ready to mate. Taken from Animal Attraction.
Tag: Polar Bear
Climate change is ‘single biggest threat’ to polar bear survival
Global warming is now the single most important threat to the survival of the polar bear with retreating sea ice set to decimate populations, according to a new study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It found a “high probability” that the planet’s 26,000 polar bears will suffer a 30% decline […]
Video: Polar Bears Feast On Dead Whale in Wild Alaska
These polar bears need the sea to freeze completely, so they have a solid platform from which to hunt seals and right now they’re hungry. Taken from Wild Alaska.
On The Hunt with land’s fastest predators
“Malaika is really special. I have never worked with a cheetah like her before. She is a wonderful mother and she is hunting every day.” These were the first encouraging words from Sammy Munene, as we sat beside a relaxed cheetah and her four cubs. The sun was just rising above Kenya’s Maasai Mara game […]
The Only Real “Paws” in Global Warming
A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimes) on her shrinking world. Scientists state that 2015 was the hottest summer on record and the extent of Arctic sea ice was at it’s fourth lowest level ever. Somewhere near the Barents Sea. With Journeys Unforgettable Photographic Safaris.
4 Ways Polar Bears Are Dealing With Climate Change
The Arctic predators—which depend on constantly diminishing amounts of sea ice to catch marine mammals such as seals—are declining in number, and fast. There are fewer than 25,000 polar bears left in the wild, according to the nonprofit organization Polar Bears International. Near the southern Beaufort Sea (map), for instance, the population has dropped about […]
Polar bears eat dolphins as Arctic warms
Norwegian scientists have seen polar bears eating dolphins in the Arctic for the first time ever and blame global warming for the bears expanding their diet. Polar bears feed mainly on seals but Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute has photographed dolphins being devoured by a bear and published his findings in the latest […]
Video: Panda Playing in Snow Goes Viral
A video of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s young giant panda, Bao Bao, tumbling down a snowy hill in Washington, D.C., has become a warm and fuzzy distraction amid this week’s frigid U.S. cold snap. As the year’s first snow blanketed the city on January 6, the 16-month-old female spent much of the morning playing in […]