Polar bear diets should be filled with a lot of fat. So much fat that some researchers study them just to understand how a species that consumes a diet with up to 80% blubber avoids heart disease and ...
In the spring, one polar bear needs to snarf at least one adult ringed seal, or 19 newborn pups, every 10 to 12 days In the spring, one polar bear needs to snarf at least one adult ringed seal, or 19 ...
As the ice melts, polar bears are struggling to get enough to eat. Usually, they rely on ringed seals to make up the bulk of their diet, but they need sea ice to hunt. This major shift in the ...
DULUTH, Minn. - The Lake Superior Zoo probably will reopen sometime after Wednesday, according to Zoological Society CEO Sam Maida. But when - and even if - the zoo's popular polar bear and two seals ...
Polar bears are primarily “sit and wait” hunters, like this bear at a seal hole on the sea ice of the southern Beaufort Sea. The new study, however, shows polar bears have higher metabolic rates than ...
Polar bears are ditching seafood in favour of scrambled eggs, as the heat rises in the Arctic melting the sea ice. A changing coastline has made it harder for the predators to catch the seals they ...