It is not easy to meet beautiful and majestic polar bears. They live alone in remote areas of the Arctic. Today, this predator is under special control and supervision, firstly, because the representatives of this species were practically exterminated by poachers, and secondly, because it is polar bears that are a kind of indicators of the health of the planet.
The polar bear (Oshkuy or Ursus maritimus) is the largest predator on our planet, adapted to the low temperatures of the Arctic and long hunger strikes. Unlike their dark counterparts, polar bears live alone, on their own.
This animal has the most sensitive scent on the planet, however, bears are not deprived of both hearing and keen eyesight, which allows them to easily hunt agile seals in the water, which make up the main diet of the furry predator.
Habitat areola
Polar bears live, perhaps, in the most severe climatic zone; they are typical inhabitants of the Far North. The Arctic is their home. It happens that a polar bear enters the tundra of the mainland - in the coastal zones of Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Russia and Norway. Today, these countries have signed an agreement on the protection and protection of the polar bear population.
The white predator does not lead a sedentary lifestyle and constantly moves with the help of floating drifting ice. For example, it travels across ice to Alaska from Russia, from Canada to Greenland and Norway. Territorial possessiveness is not typical for polar bears, so it easily shares living space with congeners and other animals. But nepotism, on the contrary, is developed.
It is known that polar bears are able to swim without rest at sub-zero air temperatures in icy water of about eighty kilometers.
The male leaves immediately after the birth of the puppy, and the female brings up and trains the cub for a long time. In the event of the death of a female, the cubs, as a rule, die quickly, with the exception of litters of three or four puppies, where the very fact of the need to fight for maternal attention and food makes the cubs more fit and independent already in the first year of life.
Survival secrets
The polar bear has excellent paws. They have convex soles with a rough surface, which help the animal well in moving on ice. These white predators have much larger paws in relation to the whole body than their counterparts, other bears. The favorite type of food is, of course, fish, which the polar bear easily catches in open areas of water, as well as small land and sea animals.
On land, the polar predator predominantly stays near river valleys or along the sea coasts and tries not to enter the glaciers themselves, although sometimes polar bears even appear on the Greenland ice dome.
It is also noteworthy that the polar bear does not fall into traditional hibernation and does not drink water, because it receives the required amount of moisture from its food.
Changing ice conditions seriously affect the seasonal migrations of polar bears. When the ice melts and breaks down, the polar bear, an excellent swimmer, moves to the Arctic border, closer to the north. With stable seasonal ice formation, bears migrate back. It is the observation of the behavior of white clubfoot that allows scientists to draw conclusions about the glacial reserve of the planet and predict global warming.
