Arctic Chills #1 | Polar bears
Polar bears are the largest species of their bear family (Ursidae )
Standing at 3 meters tall (10 feet - male, 7 feet - female ) they are the top most, apex predators of the arctic regions. They spend their winter months in rest but not hibernation though ( only bears in pregnancy do that ) and live off with fat in their build up in the summer months. They prey upon mostly seals and also on walrus, narwhals and occasionally sea birds. They hunt on cracked floating ice platforms where seals surface for air for various reasons.
While in winter they return back to the solid ice platform and live on their fat stores. Their milk white fur insulates their body from the surroundings by trapping the air and regulates the temperature of the body.
They are strong, tall, heavily built animals with non - retractable claws, and have five fingers on each paw. Their cheek bones are weak and flattened. Their lifespan is up to 30 years in the wild.
Due to human activities, global warming has increased rapidly over the past few years and temperatures, sea level raised. Melting of ice caps of polar regions increased rapidly. These unfortunate, un-natural phenomena reduced the broken and floating ice into water. Directly threatening the lives of polar bears by diminishing their hunting grounds. Now polar bears in the wild are in a a risk of extinction. They no cracked floating sheets of ice now to hunt, everything is getting converted into water and all there around is the sea. This is a critical time for polar bears, they have been on earth for about 1,30,000 years now.
Recent discoveries were made that polar bears are reproducing less than normal and when were interbreeding with another species of the bear family called the grizzly bear. ( Prizzly and Grolar bears ).
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