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The Polar Bear is the largest extant bear species, as well as the largest extant predatory carnivore.
We watched this polar bear from the deck of the expedition ship for over three hours in spite of the temperature, never knowing which shot may be the last as it wandered around. This is just one of several hundred images I took over the time! There are more of the bear and other arctic wildlife here: www.flickr.com/photos/148629640@N02/albums/72157684119918274
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It's getting warmer again. One who doesn't love summer heat is polar bear Corinna at our zoo even if she has her pool where she can cool down a bit. She also has the possiblity to go indoors whenever she wants even if that means that some visitors don't have a chance to see her. This is a photo I took on my last visit to the zoo in May and I decided to post it today because it makes a nice Tongue Tuesday shot. HTT ! :)
The polar Bear - De ijsbeer op wandel.
Explore, Oct 8, 2016
Lonely Polar Bear strolling in the hills.
East Coast - Svalbard - Spitsbergen - Norway
We rijden naar de oostkust van Spitsbergen. Dit is de plaats waar de meeste ijsberen voorkomen. We rijden over de gletsjers naar de oostkust en kijken uit voor eventueel gevaar. Gelukkig in de verte, zien we een grote ijsbeer wandelen over de vlakte en heel ver spotten we een moeder ijsbeer met haar pups.
We drive to the East coast of Spitsbergen. This is the place where we usually can spot the polar bears. We drive on the glaciers to the East Coast and look out for any danger. Fortunately, in the distance, we see a large polar bear walking across the plain and very far we spotted a mother polar bear with her pups.
Spitsbergen (Noors: Svalbard; Russisch: Шпицберген, Sjpitsbergen) is een eilandengroep (archipel) in de Noordelijke IJszee, zo'n 565 km ten noorden van Noorwegen, die uit drie grotere en een tachtigtal kleine eilanden bestaat. De eilandengroep maakt sinds 1920 met een apart statuut deel uit van het koninkrijk Noorwegen.
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitsbergen_(archipel)
Spitsbergen, één van de eilanden van Svalbard, zoals het land eigenlijk heet, is één van de meest noordelijk gelegen gebieden ter wereld waar er nog permanente bewoning is. Het is vooral een paradijs voor dieren uit de poolstreken. De kampioen is de stern, die hier in de zomer zijn eieren komt leggen en deze uitbroedt om in onze winter terug te vliegen naar Antarctica. Er zijn poolhazen, poolvossen, rendieren, en de majestueuze bewoner, de ijsbeer. Walrussen leven in kolonies langs de kust. Met een ervaren gids op de sneeuwscooter kunnen we de dieren bereiken.
We vertrekken uit de hoofdstad Longyearbyen, die ongeveer 2000 inwoners telt. Svalbard is neutraal gebied dat bestuurd wordt door Noorwegen. Met de sneeuwscooter rijden we in totaal 700 km op enkele dagen. We gingen op verkenning in eertijds 2 Russische nederzettingen, Barentszburg en Pyramiden. Verder noordwaarts gaan we een dag per boot naar Ny Alesund. Kolen worden omwille van de hoge kosten nog nauwelijks ontgonnen, toerisme is een goede bron van inkomsten.
Tijdens ons verblijf gaat de zon niet onder, hier is immers ruim 4 maanden per jaar middernachtzon. Onze verkennende tochten buiten de stad zijn steeds op de sneeuwscooter en onze gids is steeds gewapend met het gepaste karabijn, om in geval van nood weerwerk te kunnen bieden aan een ijsbeer die niet afschrikt van de vuurpijlen, die eerst moeten afgevuurd worden.
Het was een heerlijke week met zonnige dagen, maar ook tijdens onze tochten kwamen we terecht in sneeuwstorm en mist. De bevroren meren waren veilig maar toch waren veel water ijsplekken met putten. Heel akelig om daarover te rijden! Er waren ook valpartijen, maar zonder erg. We waren met 5 sneeuwscooters, een fantastisch groepje en voor mij een enig avontuur. Het rijden zelf kon ik gelukkig aan mijn zoon doorgeven.
Took this photo off the tv screen. We were watching Frozen Planet II narrated by David Attenborough.
Polar bears are beautiful yet dangerous animals. They are to be respected when you come face to face with them in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Sometimes a little too close for comfort, but we all watched out for each other.
Tough to tell if these large, male Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) were fighting for real, or just sparring. When animals this large get going, the fur flies.
Kaktovik, Barter Island, Arctic Alaska.
In the late fall, polar bears gather along the shores of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, to wait for the bay to freeze up so they can go out on the sea ice to hunt seals. A curious polar bear walked up to our SUV, which was stopped along the shoreline, allowed its portrait to be taken and then wandered off again. No bears or people were harmed in the taking of this portrait :-)
09/02/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Well it was International Polar Bear day yesterday, but what the hell, I will post one today.
There home the Arctic is warming leading the bears to starve longer than usual with scientists predicting there population to be in danger
Yes, I do have a vivid imagination!! I do see the polar bear diving into the deep blue....if you can see it too, then we are of like minds LOL Scary, huh???? Happy Friday, everyone!
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Polar bear, polar bear, Northern bear, oshkui, Nanuk, Umka-predatory mammal of the bear family, a close relative of the brown bear.
The second largest land predator on the planet after the crested crocodile.
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Белый медведь, полярный медведь, северный медведь, ошкуй, нанук, умка — хищное млекопитающее семейства медвежьих, близкий родственник бурого медведя.
Второй по величине сухопутный хищник планеты после гребнистого крокодила.
Adolescent male Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) battling on the surface of the bay. These guys play-fought right in front of us for almost an hour. Most of the action was going on under the surface, but there was plenty of biting and sniping on the surface.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only LIGHT can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only LOVE can do that.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
😄 The Power of Love for Polar Bears 😄 and the Gift of Imagination enables me to see a little Polar Bear in this small Cloud
Natural SunLight - Taken in the deep countryside in West Wales (Ceredigion) and uploaded for
Crazy Tuesday #Light
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Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
The famous polar bear warning sign on the edge of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Beyond this point you need a rifle (or be with someone that has one) because of the threat.
As he walked closer he did not take his eyes off of us, except to turn and sniff the air.
In this capture of the polar bear you can see all his fur around his paws.
And also, if you view large, you can see that his fur is really not white. The fur is made up of translucent tubes, better for warmth, insulation and floating. There are so many pieces of fur that the totality of them looks like he is white.
Best viewed large.
My photos of this Polar Bear when he first arrived at this Walrus carcass reveal a rather white-face. But as he fed his muzzle became increasingly blood-stained and red. Although it looks like he has closed eyes, if you zoom in they are clearly open, just very small. This is quite a good shot of his teeth too, well, the lower jaw at least. Enough to see that you wouldn't want to get bitten by one. Food is scarce in the high arctic but a Walrus would be too much for one Polar Bear in one sitting. But if another bear approached there would almost certainly be aggression until the dominance hierarchy was established, and the subservient one would await its turn to feed. I once saw a fresh whale carcass with several dozen Polar Bears in the vicinity. But only half a dozen big males were actually feeding, with the smaller males, and females with cubs just waiting patiently until the big ones had finished.
This was taken at Virgohamna on Spitsbergen, close to the old whaling settlement of Smeerenburg. It was also the site of a hangar for a number of attempts to reach the North Pole by balloon. The bay was named by Swedish explorer Salomon Andrée after his steam ship Virgo in 1896. Andrée also built a hangar here from which he made two attempts to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon, the second one was fatal.
Female polar bear surveys the Arctic landscape for another seal, to satisfy her recently fed cub, which is begging for another meal!
a polar bear on an ice ridge looking over his arctic home, taken in the pack ice north of Spitsbergen