/r/polarbears

Photograph via snooOG

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!


Support Polar Bear Conservation!

Community Rules
  • 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!
  • The mods reserved the right to remove posts or comments.
  • Link to Subreddit Rules

Affiliated Subreddits

Credits

/r/polarbears

10,348 Subscribers

88

Monday morning at the office

1 Comment
2025/01/13
13:03 UTC

81

The buggy and the bear

5 Comments
2025/01/06
12:12 UTC

178

Happy New Year!!

3 Comments
2024/12/31
13:37 UTC

186

Wishing you a Good Yule! God Jul! Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a wonderful festive period and plenty to enjoy like the lovely Victoria here!

5 Comments
2024/12/24
13:49 UTC

60

A bear checking out photographer's ship, Franz Josef Land archipelago

1 Comment
2024/12/16
12:59 UTC

152

Hope taking a walk in the park at Jimmy's Farm

4 Comments
2024/12/09
13:58 UTC

102

Luka strike a pose

5 Comments
2024/12/02
10:57 UTC

79

I love Polar Bears🤍

They brings me joy just look at them

7 Comments
2024/12/01
09:17 UTC

15

Do male polar bears get a den?

I don’t know much about polar bears, and I do know that females get dens before birth, but what about males? If not, then where do they normally sleep?

6 Comments
2024/11/30
06:06 UTC

203

Zen bear

5 Comments
2024/11/25
12:38 UTC

79

Anyone home?

5 Comments
2024/11/11
12:55 UTC

72

A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village’s subsistence hunting near Kaktovik, on the northern coast of Alaska. Photo by Lindsey Wasson

1 Comment
2024/11/02
15:03 UTC

210

This is Walker, he is allergic to straw! It is not uncommon for polar bears to experience allergies, with some thought to even experience hay fever!

8 Comments
2024/10/28
12:19 UTC

200

Monday morning

3 Comments
2024/10/21
11:01 UTC

71

Brookfield Zoo Chicago

1 Comment
2024/10/14
02:32 UTC

47

Polar bear and the fishing net

4 Comments
2024/10/07
12:43 UTC

258

Three bears

4 Comments
2024/09/30
12:20 UTC

128

Watchful

1 Comment
2024/09/16
11:15 UTC

190

A throwback photo of the lovely Ahpun (an Inupiaq word for "snow") with Pat Lampi in 1998 at Alaska Zoo. Ahpun passed away in 2018 age 20.

3 Comments
2024/09/02
12:27 UTC

141

Cranbeary going for a swim at the Alaska Zoo

I got to visit Alaska a couple years ago and getting to see Cranbeary was one of the highlights of the trip.

3 Comments
2024/08/22
11:19 UTC

7

Which is the largest living polar bear kept in captivity?

I am curious about how large polar bears in captivity get considering how large they are and how far they typically roam in the wild and the complications zoos typically have with large animals in captivity.

1 Comment
2024/08/22
02:32 UTC

82

It's Monday again!

3 Comments
2024/08/19
13:52 UTC

46

Why is it walking like that?

It did that for several minutes, then took a swim, got out and continued doing that. Is it stress?

10 Comments
2024/08/13
11:15 UTC

6

Any sources to polar bear populations from 2001-2024

Hi, I'm doing biology IA on polar bears and CO2 emissions. I'm having a hard time of finding information on the population sizes of polar bears within the past decade. Databases would be awesome!!

2 Comments
2024/08/12
22:46 UTC

72

Big murder mittens

Got to visit Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China and saw my first polar bear up close.

1 Comment
2024/08/11
14:19 UTC

Back To Top