Standing on thin ice.
Polar bear standing on ice.
Svalbard expedition wwf international gert polet wwf.
From an ice pack polar bears can prey on seals.
As the sea ice melts earlier and earlier polar bears are forced to swim more and more to reach seal populations said author blaine griffen a biologist at byu in a release.
The polar bears in svalbard were abundant.
The real issue however was the increased melting of sea ice on the archipelago.
Pushed further out onto the ice or stranded on the shore polar bears like many other large carnivores are under severe threat.
A boar adult male weighs around 350 700 kg 772 1 543 lb while a sow adult female is about half.
As climate change disproportionately warms the arctic the future looks increasingly bleak for.
On average polar bears on all fours are 3 5 to 5 feet 1 to 1 5 meters tall but when standing on its hind legs an adult male polar bear may reach more than 10 feet 3 m.
A mascot is often seen as a wuss compared to the real athletes but this giant polar bear is proof the men and women in novelty suits are tough nuggets.
A polar bear managed to get on one of the last ice floes floating in the arctic sea.
Cave bear skeletons were first described in 1774 by johann friederich esper in his book newly discovered zoolites of unknown four footed animals while scientists at the time considered that the skeletons could belong to apes canids felids or even dragons or unicorns esper postulated that they actually belonged to polar bears twenty years later johann christian rosenmüller an anatomist.
October 26 2017 by biodiversity with ben in 2017 scicomm students conservation.
Due to global warming the natural environment of the polar bear in the arctic has changed a lot.
The arctic sea has much less ice than it had some years ago.