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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous species of bear. Its native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas and landmasses, which includes the northernmost regions of North America and Eurasia. It is the largest extant bear species, as well as the largest extant land carnivore. A boar (adult male) weighs around 350–700 kg (770–1,540 lb), while a sow (adult female) is about half that size. Although it is the sister species of the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice and open water, and for hunting seals, which make up most of its diet. Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time on the sea ice. Their scientific name means "maritime bear" and derives from this fact. Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present. Because of their dependence on the sea ice, polar bears are classified as marine mammals.
When the sun does not rise above the horizon at all, the sky can be very colorful in the evening and morning.
The POLAR 5 - a Basler BT-67 - is a research aircraft operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The aircraft is an old 1942 Douglas DC3-T that was refurbished and converted in 2007 by Basler Turbo Conversions, LLC in Oshkosh, WI.
So it's an old aircraft equipped with new engines and the latest aircraft technology.
On board is a good half-ton of geophysical measurement instruments, making the aircraft well equipped for research tasks.
From posing for photo ops to rolling in the icy snow, he appeared to be one happy polar bear. This is an old shot
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
"Tiergarten Schönbrunn – Schönbrunn Zoo – was established by the Habsburgs in the park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna’s 13th district of Hietzing in 1752 and is today the world’s oldest zoo that is still in operation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiergarten_Sch%C3%B6nbrunn
I just returned from an amazing trip to Churchill, Manitoba. It was freezing and the Hudson bay froze over early this year. We were a bit nervous that all the polar bears would be gone but we still had amazing sightings and saw this mama polar bear and her cubs every day of our trip. The weather was bitter cold but this place is just magical.
Polar Express
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big male bear walking on the beach in a fjord in Svalbard.
Taken from a zodiac.
Polar Bear
Ursus Maritimus
Ijsbeer
Ourse polaire ou Ours blanc
Eisbär
oso polar u oso blanco
orso polare o orso bianco
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Barrow/Utqiagvik, Alaska-17190
During a past birding trip in the northern Alaskan town of Utqiagvik/Barrow , a mate and I were driving the coastal road looking for birds that might be flying along the beach and to our absolute shock and surprise there was this Polar Bear standing on the frozen Arctic ocean, no more than a 100 yards of the beach eating possibly the left overs from dead seal or whale?
We ended up watched him from the beach for about 20-30 minutes, "it seem like hours" before he moved on. During the time he was eating, every once in awhile he would look our way, just to make sure we were not getting too close.
looking through the camera view finder it added to the tension as it made him feel even closer, this is definitely a wildlife highlight and experience I will never forget.
Polar night means the period in the north when the sun does not rise at all. Here in Muonio, the next sunrise is on January 3rd. The daylight hours are short but not completely dark, because the light in the sky is reflected by the snow.
This is VIENNA, born 1988
She is polar bear FIETES Grandma
and she is the Mother of VIKTOR and Grandma of PIXEL in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park too
She lives in the Zoo Rostock, Germany
When the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon at all for many weeks in the middle of winter, the colors can be fantastic on bright days. The atmosphere is also affected by the trees, which are covered with a thick snow.
Taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park these two Polar Bears were having great fun play fighting. I could sit and watch then all day.
"The blue striping of the polar bear evokes the strata of a color of ice as if the bear itself were formed from a glacier.
Blue ice occurs when newer ice compresses the air bubbles in older ice, allowing light to penetrate the ice more deeply. This denser ice absorbs red and yellow light and reflects blue light, giving glacial ice its blue hues."
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Sean Kenney's Nature Pop
We have had very stormy weather today. The Dragon had to stay indoors where he curled up next to his buddy Anton, the polar bear, and they both listened to the wind howling around the house.
This polar bear lives at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a zoo dedicated to conservation. The are 3 bears at the zoo and a great viewing area to watch them eat, play and swim.
It is amazing how fast a Polar Bear can run. In this photo, the bear ran by me at a gait, not full speed, and the gait was amazingly fast. I'm thinking, if a polar bear wants a human and the human is out without protection, the polar bear will win 100% of the time.
at least 15 mph. Glad I was in the safety of a vehicle, however, the glass and sheet metal would just slow the bear down.
It's been 6 years since I was privileged to view these 2 cubs and and a few other. I often wonder how they have faired.
What an amazing experience to view and photograph this big bear. While there is snow in this series, it left as we experienced an abnormally warm up...about 50 F (10 C)
This cute little character is one of several polar bear stuffed animals that we use for Christmas decorations each year around our house. This guy with the coke bottle is my favorite of the bunch. It's a nod to the Coca-Cola TV commercials that featured animated polar bears that began running in 1993, and first appeared in Coke Christmas ads in 1995.
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A very heavily processed artistic adaptation of a close-up photo that I took in August of a Polar Bear Zinnia in Pella, Iowa.
I created two different layers in Photoshop using the Art History Brush with two separate brushes. I then added a heavy paint texture to both of these new layers and adjusted the transparency of each layer in the stack. I again applied the same heavy paint texture to the entire composite image and removed some of the texture from the center of the flower with a mask and brush. To finish the composition, I did some dodge & burn work and then used Photoshop’s Selective Color tool and Curves tool to apply some minor color-grading.