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Polar bears sleep close to eight hours a day on average. [83] They will sleep in various positions, including curled up, sitting up, lying on one side, on the back with limbs spread, or on the belly with the rump elevated. [42] [76] On sea ice, polar bears snooze at pressure ridges where they dig on the sheltered side and lie down. After a ...
Sometimes creatures of the wild like to venture off and get a little too close for comfort -- moseying around in humankind's turf. That's exactly what happened on April 10 when a polar bear was ...
Umka (Russian: Умка) is a 1969 Soviet animated film. It is based on a children's book of the same name by Yuri Yakovlev, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.Umka means "polar bear" in the Chukchi language.
In Inuit religion, Nanook (/ ˈ n æ n uː k /; Inuktitut: ᓇᓄᖅ [1], [2] lit. "polar bear") was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters deserved success in finding and hunting bears and punished violations of taboos. [3] The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary. [citation needed]
The bears, a threatened species, had by the 1980s become rare in the GYE, so Mangelsen began going north, to Canada and Alaska, where there was less hunting and tourism pressure and the animals were more common. He began photographing polar bears as well. [6] Bears hunting fish at Brooks Falls
Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae that includes the widely distributed brown bear, [3] the polar bear, [4] the American black bear, and the Asian black bear. The name is derived from the Latin ursus, meaning bear. [5] [6]
Arctic Tale is a 2007 American documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, in a similar vein to the 2005 hit production March of the Penguins, which was adapted for an English-language release by National Geographic.
Image credits: Sasha Weilbaker #4 Wind Blades. Humpback Whales are one of the largest weighing animals of the world, yet they are profound swimmers, which attributes down to its flippers (fins).