Polar Bear
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| Conservation status | Vulnerable (Population decreasing) |
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| Class | Mammalia |
| Order | Carnivora |
| Mass | Male: 450 kg (Adult, Beaufort Sea population), Female: 150 – 250 kg (Adult) |
| Height | Female1.8 - 2.4 m Adult, On hind legs, Male1.3 m Adult, At Shoulder (cm) |
| Did you know | The scientific name for the polar bear is 'ursus maritimus'. |
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| ID | 771917 |
About Polar Bear
The polar bear is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is a large bear, approximately the same size as the omnivorous Kodiak bear.
Finland says gas pipeline damage probably caused by dragging anchor
... Finland s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said on Friday that they were now focusing their probe on the Chinese NewNew Polar Bear container vessel, which had passed over the pipeline around the time of the damage...
Simon Armitage: Poet laureate on 'life-changing' visit to the Arctic
... A Polar Bear is traipsing over a receding glacier that now resembles a " rotting carcass of ice" wearing a fur coat that s " too heavy, too baggy, too hot since the sun got stuck in the sky"...
Bears, birds and kangaroos: Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards
... " Khurram Khan, taken on Barter Island, Alaska, USA" This Polar Bear cub found this wood pretty amusing and was playing with it when it suddenly stopped and stood up, using it almost like a performer does at times...
Polar bear kills woman and boy in Alaska village
...A Polar Bear has killed a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village, authorities have said...
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...
Canada's polar-bear capital Churchill warms too fast for bears
...By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News" The bears know the ice will be back soon - they re waiting, " says Alysa McCall, from Polar Bears International (PBI)...
Russia toughens anti-LGBT 'propaganda' ban to apply to all adults
... He presented his colleagues with screenshots of the TV programmes that he claimed were part of a war being " waged against our society" directing his ire at the episode of Peppa Pig in which Penny the Polar Bear appears with two mothers as a particularly egregious example of this so-called propaganda...
Svalbard: The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth
... You need a gun whenever you venture from the main road of Longyearbyen, the capital of this Norwegian archipelago, because of the risk of encountering Polar Bears...
Polar bear Photos
