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Post by brobear on Mar 26, 2017 11:48:18 GMT -5
BEARS of the last frontier... I've watched polar bears climbing icebergs, dancing between ice floes, swimming frigid seas, and sprawling out casually during mind-numbingly cold arctic storms. They always look at home in the cold. One one occasion I watched a young male dive repeatedly into the slushy ocean from an icy platform. Time after time he would belly flop right into the sea, often jumping onto a slab of ice, a little like a giant kitten pouncing onto a toy. Seconds later he would haul himself out, dripping gallons of water from his fur, only to repeat the same flop a second or two later. I swear he had a smile on his face the whole time. It seems very apt that polar bears are categorized as pagophilic, or "ice-loving." It is certainly the impression I got from the young male bear that day.
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Post by brobear on Mar 26, 2017 11:51:54 GMT -5
BEARS of the last frontier... I feel very fortunate to have watched many polar bears over the years, and one thing that stands out and surprises a lot of people is how individual their personalities are. Bears are incredibly intelligent animals with huge variation in character - just like people. We can tend to forget this personal side of bears as we talk "populations" in distant places, but those populations are made up of individuals, each living their lives with a range of habits and traits, some learned, some passed down from generations before.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 8:40:21 GMT -5
I have seen polar bear but only at the zoo and at Seaworld, Gold coast, Queensland.
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Post by brobear on Jan 26, 2019 17:40:47 GMT -5
Polar bears wag their head from side to side as a sign they want to play. Adult bears initiate play by standing on their hind legs, chin lowered to their chests, with front paws hanging by their sides. We captured this image of playful bears near Dymond Lake north of Churchill, Canada.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 0:34:54 GMT -5
Male young adult polar bears do a lot of playing to determine who is stronger.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 3:46:21 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 10, 2019 23:55:58 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 10, 2019 23:56:58 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Jun 22, 2019 21:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 22, 2019 23:15:16 GMT -5
Polar bears have a really unpredictable character.
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Post by King Kodiak on Jun 25, 2019 16:07:21 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 22, 2019 6:01:29 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 29, 2019 13:51:43 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Dec 29, 2019 14:45:57 GMT -5
Had to put the smallest black bear in a safe place - next to the puma.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 29, 2019 23:06:25 GMT -5
Once again, the polar bear is doing a good job in captivity. The lion confronts more that’s why even though captive lions kill captive polar bears, there is a fair share of captive polar bears killing captive lions. Captive tigers normally avoid captive polar bears.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 29, 2019 23:08:25 GMT -5
The polar bear having black bear underneath it’s translucent fur should indirectly be called the ‘black bear’ of the north 😁.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 29, 2019 23:56:55 GMT -5
URSUS AMERICANUS: "Once again, the polar bear is doing a good job in captivity. The lion confronts more that’s why even though captive lions kill captive polar bears, there is a fair share of captive polar bears killing captive lions. Captive tigers normally avoid captive polar bears." Yeah, you are right, believe it or not, we have 4 different accounts of polar bears killing or defeating lions in captivity. One of which, the Velox account, she killed 2 lions. So in total, we have 3 dead lions and another 2 lions badly injured, not killed but defeated by polar bears.
domainofthebears.proboards.com/thread/509/bears-defeat-lions-accountsI believe there are about 6/7 accounts of lions killing or defeating polar bears, so in reality its pretty close. Of course, we already know the HUGE difference, that when a lion kills a polar bear in captivity, he is killing an overheated, weak, sick, and demented polar bear. While when a polar bear kills a lion in captivity, its a sick and weak polar bear that killed/defeated a lion.
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Post by King Kodiak on Jan 6, 2020 20:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Jan 31, 2020 7:07:48 GMT -5
MEET THE ZOOLOGIST WHO LIVES WITH POLAR BEARSNikita Ovsyanikov has spent decades studying polar bears on a remote Siberian island to better understand their behaviors ame: Nikita Ovsyanikov Job: Behavioral scientist Home Base: A small village 250 miles northwest of Moscow Age: 67 Education: Studied zoology at Moscow State University When he was just three years old, Russian Nikita Ovsyanikov told his mother that he wanted to work with animals. He stuck to his word. Ovsyanikov grew up to study biology and zoology at Moscow State University, then spent over a dozen years studying the Arctic fox. In 1990, he switched his focus to an even bigger animal: the polar bear. To observe these creatures in the wild, he spent years living on remote Wrangel Island, a polar bear denning location in the East Siberian Sea. “If you want to know how animals live, what their interaction with their environment is like, you have to observe it,” Ovsyanikov says. “When I decided to do this kind of research, I had to choose to live in the wilderness. The more of your own lifetime you invest in this activity, the more you learn.” Now mainly retired from field research, Ovsyanikov works as a guide and lecturer with Arctic-tourism outfitter Quark Expeditions. We called him at his remote cabin to talk about his life’s work. On Why He Picked Polar Bears: “I was studying Arctic foxes, and I started to understand them. So I thought, Let’s look at how this larger Arctic predator is managing life. I knew there was almost nothing known about the social life and behavior of polar bears.” On the First Thing He Does When He Wakes Up in the Field: “I listen for wind and the sounds of tundra outside the cabin. The sound of the wind tells you whether or not there is a storm today. I make breakfast and preparations to go out for long daily observations. It’s important to prepare yourself for long stretches outside in the cold and wind to observe animals. You can only step out when you are physiologically and psychologically ready—prepared, warmed up. In the Arctic, you can’t do this work effectively if you jump out of bed, then run from the cabin, not being warmed up, as people usually do in big cities. If you do that in the Arctic field, you might get in trouble by making mistakes, or you would miss important events that are happening around you.” On How He Lives Among Polar Bears:“You can’t make yourself invisible to animals—they’re smart, they see what’s in their territory, they’ll come investigate you. So you have to convince them that you’re a harmless creature. I have to present myself not as a hunter but that I’m living there alongside them. Year after year, they know when you’re in this cabin, you’re not posing any threat to them.” On How He Stays Safe: “I never considered having firearms. From the beginning, my philosophy was that my presence and my ambitions there in no way should result in the polar bears losing their lives. In my more than 2,000 encounters with polar bears on the ground, I experienced only four cases of serious aggression, where polar bears attacked with motivation to kill me. I provoked each of those incidents myself, by making some kind of mistake in my behavior, so I developed a nonlethal approach that combines behavioral rules with the use of only nonlethal bear deterrents, like pepper spray or a wooden stick.” On the Most Fulfilling Part of His Job:“All animals are very individual. The major pleasure for me working with polar bears is to discover their personal characters. It’s like opening another world.” www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.outsideonline.com/2391212/polar-bears-siberia-zoologist-nikita-ovsyanikov&ved=0ahUKEwjFscaP563nAhX9lnIEHX8SDboQxfQBCDswBg&usg=AOvVaw0IQdSfjaBu3iS8hCX-AgOy
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 29, 2020 15:55:54 GMT -5
THE POLAR BEAR IS THE MOST UNPREDICTABLE OF ALL BEARS. ITS HIDE IS TOO THICK TO FEEL HEAVY BLOWS. WHEN FACED WITH SOMETHING UNFAMILIAR SOME ANIMALS DISPLAY A STREAK OF COWARDICE, BUT NO SO THE POLAR BEAR. WHEN IT LUNGES AT AN INTERLOPING OBJECT, IT SEEKS TO DESTROY IT.
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