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Majestic creature of the far north, the polar bear is the world's largest terrestrial carnivore. Its Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means 'sea bear', an apt name for this amazing species which spends much of its life predominantly on sea ice.

Majestic creature of the far north, the polar bear is the world's largest terrestrial carnivore.

Its Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means 'sea bear', an apt name for this amazing species which spends much of its life predominantly on sea ice.

Polar bears are listed as a vulnerable by IUCN because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change.

It is not too late to take action to help polar bears, click here for a list of things you can do!


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A polar bear on the sea ice in Nunavut's Repulse Bay. Arctic ice is shrinking at a rate of almost 13% a decade, and climate scientists are warning that ice-free summers in the Arctic are inevitable by 2050 (that's 26 years away)

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2024/03/18
12:13 UTC

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Polar bear zoomies!

This is Baffin (~7) and Siku (~8) who are adopted brothers and besties that now reside at the Calgary zoo in a 2 acre enclosure! They were both orphaned at less than a year old which meant they had a very low chance of survival if reintroduced into the wild so instead they’ve become ambassadors for their species.

5 Comments
2024/03/12
05:41 UTC

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Too close!

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2024/03/11
12:53 UTC

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A young male polar bear rests and hunts nesting seabirds on rocky cliff of Coburg Island, NW Passage, Nunavut.

1 Comment
2024/03/04
11:47 UTC

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Svalbard population curve?

Me and a friend have roughly to weeks to create an 15-30 min lecture on what threatens the polar bears, specifically in Svalbard, and I would love a graph which shows how their population has changed over time. Any help would be greatly appreciated, given my efforts to find such a graph myself has failed spectacularly

EDIT: whelp, I got an A

5 Comments
2024/02/29
13:00 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #1: Polar bear moms have one of the longest fasting periods in the animal kingdom.

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2024/02/27
21:13 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #2: Polar bear cubs grow incredibly rapidly for the first few years of life.

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2024/02/27
04:43 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #3: Polar bear milk is the fattiest of any land mammal's.

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2024/02/26
16:06 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #4: Cubs have to learn all about being a polar bear in just over two years.

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2024/02/25
18:06 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #5: Female polar bears start a new family about every three years.

6 Comments
2024/02/24
17:12 UTC

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Top Mom & Cub Fact #6

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2024/02/22
05:50 UTC

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Two bears

5 Comments
2024/02/19
12:57 UTC

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New research paper: Can polar bears adapt to longer summers on land?

2 Comments
2024/02/18
18:23 UTC

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Baby bear playing with momma ❤️❤️

Boop!

1 Comment
2024/02/17
05:18 UTC

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Footprints

2 Comments
2024/01/29
11:40 UTC

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A handsome fella at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

2 Comments
2024/01/16
13:46 UTC

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Baby bear and momma 🙂❤️

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2024/01/14
00:58 UTC

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A mother and her cub

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2024/01/08
12:03 UTC

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A young polar bear pulls itself onto sea ice

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2023/12/18
19:37 UTC

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A mother and cub seen from the deck of MS Fridtjof Nansen

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2023/12/04
11:06 UTC

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Come back and play with me!

2 Comments
2023/11/27
10:01 UTC

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Kallik and Kallu will be celebrating their first birthday on the 11th of November at Toledo Zoo!

6 Comments
2023/11/06
11:22 UTC

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Comfy

2 Comments
2023/10/30
17:17 UTC

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Be on the lookout, our pumpkin was stolen. Happy Halloween! (Photo credit to a friend)

1 Comment
2023/10/29
16:47 UTC

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Ewa in her element

2 Comments
2023/10/17
10:27 UTC

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Cub with a stick - finalist in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

3 Comments
2023/10/09
11:35 UTC

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