... follow the females tracks for more than 100 km, we are unable to figure out what signals the males are using to track the females yet. Before mating the female Polar Bear maybe joined by several males. The males fight themselves, it starts out by lowering its head, flattens its ears back, and hisses at the other male, they fight until the ... many different methods for collecting and eating their food, one method is called "still hunting", this is when the polar bear remains motionless beside a breathing hole or lead edge waiting for a seal to surface. When the seal comes up to breath t...

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... are born they have no fur and they cannot hear or see. They cubs are usually born in November or December. The mothers separate from their young after three years. Polar bear cubs are whiter than the adult bears. When the cubs are born they tend to weigh a little more than a pound and can be 12 to 14 inches long. The adult ... two legs they can be as tall as 10 feet. The color of their fur is white. Female polar bear can be over protective over their cubs. Because male polar bears eat the cubs when they are born. Polar bears can pack in the fat; a single bear can consume 100 pound of bl...

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... Alaskans love to hunt. In addition to hunting down and eliminating the wolves of Alaska, Palin also tried to remove the protected status from polar bears in the region according to Lin. The attempt to remove the polar bears from the endangered species list is puzzling to American voters at best. Palin stated that the reason for this was because they interfered ... by writing an opinion editorial for the NY Times in January of 08. The article states that polar bears are simply being mismanaged. She states, "To help ensure that polar bears are around for centuries to come, Alaska (about a...

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... vegetation. This also lowers the ability of the Arctic to reflect the solar radiation. Predictions made by scientists indicate that higher carbon monoxide levels will lead to polar warming that is higher than the global average, with more warming over land than sea and the utmost warming occurring over land. The temperature in the Arctic ... seals. The bears hunt these seals by the ices edge or though the ice itself. The change in the ice will affect the food chain of which polar bears are a part. "The algae that grows on the bottom of the ice is eaten by the plankton which in turn is ea...

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... temperatures are rising twice as fast as they are in other areas. The areas of the world that are permanently covered in ice are shrinking 9% each decade. Arctic animals like polar bears, walruses, whales, and seals are having to change their migration and feeding patterns. This makes it hard for the native people who have to hunt those animals to survive ... the ice gone they isn't going to be cold air coming from the north so they won't be able to grow their winter wheat. Polar bears are one of the animals that are being grately affected by global warming. Polar bears main prey is a s...

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... have special rules that they follow so that they do not make the animal mad. They believe that the animals know what is going on even after death. The bear is one of the most respected animals to the Eskimos. The Eskimos remove the feet first so that the spirit of the dead animal does not wander. Then ... are knowledgeable about is the environment. They can tell when a storm is coming by how the seals surface in the water. Also they know how the polar bears hunt the seal. The bear looks for snow caps in the ice, which is where the seals make their dens, then they break away the bottom of...

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