Polar Bears

Cubs usually weigh less than 0.9 kg - about 2 lbs.

Bears and baby bears make all kinds of squeals, coos and grunts depending on the circumstances. Bears also growl when they are threatened.

Yes, and polar bears LOVE the snow. When the snow comes down, it's time for the bears to come out and play--or hunt, rather, because it means that the sea ice is soon to close in to allow them to roam and do the things polar bears love most.

polar bear cubs remain with their mum until the third spring of their lives. that is the best answer i googled anyway!

Normally, a female Polar Bear, or "sow", will give birth to twins in the winter. She can give birth to as few as one or as many as four. But the average is twins or a pair. The cubs are born, sometime between late November and January, in a den the mother has already built by digging deep into a snow drift. This helps to protect, and insulate, both the cubs and the mother. If a snow drift isn't available she will prepare a den in the soil. Females are very aggressive about protecting their young, and they while raising the cubs on her own. In fact, males have been know to kill the offspring. For more details see sites listed below.

In that time period, with uncontrolled hunting, the numbers were less than 10,000.

Generally, they tend to run the economy with an iron grip. Any new inventions have to go through the Polar Bear Mafia to make sure they will not upset the fragile balance they're currently maintaining. Most consider their works counter-productive to creativity, but without their careful guide, the dollar would be even lower in value.

The motto of the wise is, beware of surprises- Charles Chan. Okay this might be a side-effect of the Bears" cold climate, lower metabolism rates ( sleep it off on an ice floe in the winter- watch out for Coast Guard gunnery practice!) Kidding aside sound travels better at frigid temperatures- the speed ( Mach Factor I- 760 Miles per Hour at sea level) is the same- as this is Mach"s Constant. -but the reception is clearer over a longer distance. A few years ago I could hear some Church bells on Central avenue on a cold December day- almost a mile from their point of Origin. Also one gets better photographs in the winter as there is no ( Ground clutter)- vegetation has faded, and one can see further, and the atmosphere is more stable - also cold inhibits motion so one has a smooth let-off minimizing camera shake. all of this could apply to the Polar Bear. Titano the Polar Bear, nature survivor.

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Well, there is no one true amazing fact about polarbears. Whatever catches your eye is amazing, to you! My favorite polar bear fact is that their skin under their fur is black! Additional Info: There are so many things that are unique to the Polar Bear, or used for a specific purpose by this species. One of those is the inner eye lids, or double eye lids. This inner eye lid allows the Polar Bear to tolerate the glare of the sun off the ice and snow without suffering from snow blindness. Also, they keep their eyes open while they swim, and see very well under water. For more details, please see sites listed below.

No, they don't "hunt" people normally. I'm not saying a polar bear would never kill a person, they just don't come looking for us. Polar bears eat Ringed or Bearded seals, Beluga whales, walrus, and carrion. They will also eat eggs, birds, reindeer, crabs, and shellfish. But it is rare for a Polar Bear to "hunt" a human. It's said that a good Polar Bear is one you saw first. Giving you time to get out of the way, and prepare to deal with them. They will kill people, and there are recorded events of people being killed by Polar Bears. Most of those were times that people provoked the Polar Bear, either by actions, such as tracking them, then throwing rocks at him. Also not paying attention to what is around you. When you live in Polar Bear territory, you must always be aware of your surroundings, and never get between a mother and her cubs, or food and a hungry Polar Bear. If you do something like that, then the chances are good that a Polar Bear will take action, or attack you, and may very well kill you. But the Polar Bear is not known for hunting people like the Grizzly Bear does. They don't see the human as a food source, except for what we have in our homes, or dumps etc. For more details, please see the sites listed below.

They are one of the few animals that actually go out of their way to hunt humans. Hunters have been attacked in their tents during the night by these creatures. Actual attacks though are still rare. 19 in Russia, 9 in the USA and a dozen or so in Canada make up the total number of attacks. In almost all cases, the attack is fatal.

A polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. The tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human is 10,000 IU. This is why eating a polar bear's liver can kill a human due to the massive amount of vitamin A it contains.

Over hunting reduced the population to less than 8000 in the 1970's.

Today, the polar bear numbers around 25000, and is in no imminent danger of extinction.

Listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Sea ice is critical to the polar bear because these bears hunt from this ice.

As the north warms in spring, the bears wait for the ice to begin to break up as they begin to venture out on it. There on the ice they will try to take seals, walrus, or anything else they might catch. Even the mothers take their cubs out on this ice as seals use it to den and can be hunted from the frozen platform.

Polar bears have adapted to the cold. It's too warm in the rainforest.

Some can. Marlins are knows to swim at speeds of nearly 60 MPH, probably faster. Yet some are really slow.

The polar bears that were drowned were four bears killed in a terrible storm, that the bears could not make it back to shore because of the rough water conditions. The bears are not drowning on a regular basis in the Arctic. Source: SPPI, 35 Inconvenient Truths

Polar bears occur in the Arctic or northern hemisphere while all 17 species of penguins evolved in the southern hemisphere. Also penguin flesh is not particularly nutritious to a polar bear, which generally relies on pinniped or cetacean blubber to survive.

Polar bears have been known to swim extremely long times and cover hundreds of miles. Recently a polar bear fitted with a tracking device managed to swim for over 9 days and covered 426 miles.

Yes, for three months while they are pregnant.

If you want to see polar bears it kind of depends on the time of year you intend to do so. In late fall and early winter they hang out around Churchill, Manitoba. That is a good place for a "southerner" to see them as it has an airport and hotels. The bears do wander into the town itself and if you can't afford things like a tundra buggy visit out to the snowfields maybe a couple of taxi rides around the dump would accomplish the same thing. However, the cabbie may not want to get too close and even the buggies avoid that. My advice may lack 'romance' but it all depends on what part of the experience you want. You can also go out onto the tundra on dog teams through certain outfitters etc.

No matter how you do this it is not inexpensive.

No accurate count has been made but there is an estimate of 20,000-25,000 worldwide. Past populations were even less accurately known.

Though thought to be in decline they are not yet an endangered species.

They are classified as 'vulnerable', the US has also classified them as 'threatened'.

polar bears look normally just like a bear.they are from the bear family so they look like a bear of course.a polar beares fur is ice whits and sometimes ther fur can be brown.it dependes on where the polar is staying.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

Yes, that's how they make more grizzly bears.

There is no harm or decline in the population of seals. Its just that seals usually spend most of their time under the ice sheet in the below freezing temperature of water below.

Polar bears have to wait for a long time near the breathing holes that seals make before they get under the ice.When the seals come out to take in air again, the polar bears kill them.

Since, they can stay underwater for hours together, it may seem that they are few in number.