Polar Bear Facts

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❄️💡 This polar bear really embraces working smarter, not harder. As the Arctic warms, finding food becomes increasingly difficult for polar bears. 🐻‍❄️ There’s less time to hunt: Sea ice 🧊 retreats earlier in spring and forms later ❄️ in winter. Polar bears become reliant on other types of food – and develop smart ways of obtaining their prey. 🐟 Enjoy your codfish, smart little polar bear! 📷 Cover image: paulnicklen on Instagram 📹 Video footage: florian_ledoux_photographer on Instagram #Oc

A rare sighting - a mother polar bear with three cubs! Seeing such a healthy mother bear with plump cubs in the summer is an uncommon sight nowadays. The ice-free period in the summer on the Arctic Ocean is a time of year that is most stressful for polar bears. That period of time has greatly increased in recent decades due to #climatechange . This mother bear had a lucky find, a washed-up whale carcass along the shoreline of the ocean. This opportunity for her will greatly increase the chances