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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.
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- True polar bear only - images, videos, gifs, facts, information, news, conservation, questions, discussions, and travel stories.
- Don't spam, no self-promotion or karma farm! This includes blog, vlog or podcast spam, or post content from personal social media accounts.
- No memes, comics, arts, toys, things, fake or photoshopped images, taxidermy, etc.
- Polar bear is the largest and most powerful carnivore on land, please tag content featuring obvious gore as NSFW.
- Please link directly to the media.
- Contribute to the community, be excellent to one another!
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- BearWithAView
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- GrizzlyBears
- Hippos
- Hyenas
- Koalas
- Lynxes
- Panda
- RedPandas
- Tapirs
- Whales
- Reddit's Animal Kingdom
Credits
- Header - Meril Darees @ marildaress.com
- Sidebar - Polar Bears International
- CSS - /r/Mindashq
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The force is strong with this one
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Underwater bears
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When your friend told you a dad joke
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Highland Wildlife Park post lunch snooze
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A polar bear-grizzly bear hybrid seen in Alaska. The shape of this bear's neck, snout and body is a giveaway.
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How do polar bears find each other to mate?
https://reddit.com/link/1diuaqs/video/z8emag5rsc7d1/player
Polar bears are solitary animals, so how do they find each other across the vast frozen ocean to mate in the spring?
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Looking up
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Kova is not a fan of Mondays
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A polar bear cub and mother west of Cape Tatnam on Canada's Hudson Bay coast
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This is my hat now
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Arctic predator's hunting behaviour caught on camera
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Walking in the low Arctic sunlight
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Normal Polar Bear Behaviour ?
Excuse my ignorance but is this anywhere near normal polar bear behaviour ? Observed at the Toronto zoo what appears to be a pretty seriously distressed bear, but I’m no expert in animal behaviour. The employee claimed the bear was just “wanting to play”.
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Flocke drying bear fur in the sun at Jimmy's Farm, Suffolk, England
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Majestic yet terrifying
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Here's what I think of Mondays!
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Polar Bear Adaptations
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A 3 years old polar bear comparing to an adult human
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We're here for the board games session, let us in!
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A polar bear mother and her cubs on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Photo by Paul Goldstein
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Heron stealing fish from a polar bear
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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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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.
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Too close!
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A young male polar bear rests and hunts nesting seabirds on rocky cliff of Coburg Island, NW Passage, Nunavut.
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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
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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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Top Mom & Cub Fact #2: Polar bear cubs grow incredibly rapidly for the first few years of life.
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Top Mom & Cub Fact #3: Polar bear milk is the fattiest of any land mammal's.
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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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