As the year-round presence of sea ice wanes in the Arctic, Polar Bears face significant challenges. These large predators depend on the presence of sea ice for habitat and hunting grounds. Primarily hunters of seals, Polar Bears face significant threats due to Climate change. Indeed, predictions showing that yearlong polar ice cover may disappear by […]
Tag: polar bears
Recent Research Shows That Bears Could be the Smartest Animals
Bears are known for their strength, solitude, and adaptability, but recent research has uncovered a surprising dimension to their capabilities: tool use, according to reporting done by Newsweek. One of the most remarkable findings in this regard is a polar bear using a block of ice to hunt seals—an action that typically remains the domain […]
Scientists Find Direct Link Between Polar Bear Cub Survival Rates and Human-Caused Carbon Emissions
A new study has found a direct link between human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and the survival of polar bear cubs. The findings could help address a former legal opinion that impacts polar bear protections. A 2008 legal opinion from the Solicitor of the Department of Interior noted that emissions did not need to be considered […]
Brown Bears And Polar Bears In Siberia Might Soon Start Creating Hybrids Called The ‘Brolar Bear’
If you think about hybrids, what’s the first species that comes to mind? Some of the more popular ones you’ve probably heard of are ligers, tigons, coywolves, or even mules! To be honest, I didn’t know that the mule was a hybrid between a donkey and a horse until just recently. But another species that’s […]
Canada’s polar bear population plummets – government report
The polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped by 27% in just five years, a report has said. A government report estimates that 618 animals lived in the area last year, down from 842 in 2016. It says adult female bears and cubs are particularly affected and that climate change may be […]
All Bears are Omnivores Like Humans, New Study Suggests
“Bears are not carnivores in the strictest sense like a cat where they consume a high-protein diet,” said Washington State University’s Professor Charles Robbins. “In zoos forever, whether it’s polar bears, brown bears or sloth bears, the recommendation has been to feed them as if they are high-protein carnivores. When you do that, you kill […]
Rare One-In-A-Million Spirit Bear Spotted On Michigan Trail
A one-in-a-million black bear was captured on camera in Michigan and people can’t get enough of it. A Michigan trail camera managed to photograph a white-colored black bear in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Photos of the bear were shared in a Facebook post by an Upper Peninsula trekking guide Facebook page, Yooper Outdoors […]
Whales and walruses: our cruel fascination with stranded sealife
In the light of the sad and disputatious fate of Freya, a displaced walrus who had the misfortune to choose Norway as the last stop on her misbegotten tour of Europe (having gone from Northumberland to the Netherlands, where latterly she dozed on a moored navy submarine and raised speculation that she might be making […]