What do female polar bears do to protect there cubs?

Answer 1

Well, that would be very rare since animals aren't like human beings and they kill other living beings for food and they don't go bankrupt, but hypothetically speaking if a mother bear couldn't get enough food they would probably survive on plants and bugs and whatever they can find, humans don't differ from animals as much as you may think, they gotta do what they gotta do to survive, until they seek a better life and they would probably drink dirty water, and if that certain cub was eating too much the cub would probably help the mother bear hunt.

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-kevin

Answer 2

Cubs, usually two but sometimes one or three, and very rarely four,, are born sometime i December or early Jauary.. They are blind, deaf, poorly insulated and unable to walk or smell. in their first weeks they are dependent on three things for survival: the protection of the den, the warm crevices of their mother's body,and her rich milk.(Polar bear milk has the consistency of cream. THose who have tasted it say it tastes like cod liver oil and smells of seals or fish. it is richer than whale milk and higher in protein than seal milk.) Again, it is only with the protection of a well made den that a female can conserve and direct her metabolism to produce the heat and milk that her cubs need.

The cubs are so small at birth, barely a pound, that the female can hide one in the rolled toes of her front paw.about twenty four days they can hear, and a week later they are able to see. it is several more weeks before they ca walk and smell. By late March early April the cubs weigh about 25 pounds, and the female, depending on the weather and the cubs' condition, breaks out of her den. For the fist days she might just sit drowsily in the sun at the den entrance, Or roll in the snow to revive her coat. Or nose about in a desultory way, looking for grasses and lichens to nibble. A well-placed den entrance will be protected from the wind and directed in some measure to the south and west to take advantage of the sun's afternoon warmth. Cubs venture forth onto this sheltered sun porch a few days after their mother and often nurses them in a sitting position in the sunshine, with her back against a snowbank. The cubs lie on her belly. While they nurse, she may put her head back and stare at the sky, or roll her head slowly from side to side, or rock her cubs gently in the cradle of her forelegs.

Answer 3

her cubs starve or she coughs up her food