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The Grandma of Polar Bear Fiete and the Mom of Vilma.
She traveled to France and will stay there until the new polar bear enclosure in Rostock is finished.
I wish her a good time in her new home in the Zoo de La Palmyre and hope to see from time to time some new pics of her here on Flickr.
Saw a Polar Bear swimming in the Arctic Ocean near Kaktovik Alaska, Barter Island. The bear was swimming about 25 feet offshore and just looking around. Kind of wonder if he was standing on the sea bottom or if he was paddling.
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Button we obtained when we road the Polar Bear Express train by Ontario Northland Railway from Cochrane to Moosonee in July 1984.
Don't be fooled by the "closeness" of this pic, as we used long zoom lenses when capturing the natural beauty of these wonderful babies. We were probably 75-100 yards away from momma and her cubs, with our guides making sure that both the Bears and the Guests stayed safely away from each other.
As with the rest of the Polar Bear pics that we captured during our March 2025 trip to Manitoba Canada, we were shown these Bears by the guides at Wat'chee Lodge.
Momma tolerated us. The kids mostly ignored us while they alternately drank momma's milk, slept, wrestled with each other, or made short attempts to maul/climb the tiny trees that grow in this area of Manitoba.
Wapusk National Park, Wat'chee Lodge, Manitoba, Canada, March 2025.
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These two visited the ship I was on as we were steaming south, just about to leave the pack ice.
From our photo tour last month in the Alaska Arctic.
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More than 300 people took the Plunge into Green Lake on Jan. 29, 2011 as part of law enforcement's Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Damon Jongbloed.
Problematical polar bears hanging around town are taken here and typically held for a month, given water and cared for but no food - not wanting to reward them - then taken and released well out of town. Kal Barteski did the painting.
If you don't know, the polar bear is waking up before dawn and jumping in the ocean. It's frequently done at summer camp. I can't help but think about an actual polar bear that would find this place to be a playground of opportunity for finding a seal snack. I'm sure at one point Polar bears were quite abundant in Iceland. Now occasionally they ride a glacier block down from the north, and Iceland promptly transports them back north. As far as iceland is concerned... a Polar bear would have a field day eating sheep and what not to it's hearts content and the farmers dismay. It's sort of unfortunate they've completely lost their habitat here when it seems like such a natural place for them.
Also, no I did not have the guts to "polar bear" into this ice water, but I've just pledged today, that when I head back, I will submerge myself in this icy water. Which makes me much less excited about seeing this beautiful place again since I will most certainly return.
This sad looking polar bear made me see the dark sides of a zoo again... It is a wonderful thing to get to see so many wonderful animals right in front of you without having to go out in the dangeous wilderness. But this comes with the price the animals have to pay - their lack of freedoom. Germany, Wilhelma Stuttgart
Today I'm excited to celebrate International Polar Bear Day! 2-1/2 years ago I had the honor to be able to travel to the arctic and photograph these amazing creatures. I made that trip at that time, not knowing what their survival status would be in the future. I wanted to see them before it was too late. I was thrilled beyond words to get to spend 5 days in their world ... their habitat ... watching them act as natural polar bears do. To witness these bears roaming freely upon the chilly waters off the Beaufort Sea waiting for the waters to freeze for their frozen tundra travels. Observing how they interacted with their environment, with each other, with their young ... and to see those young spring cubs and yearlings playing was so heart-warming. I was literally like a kid in a candy store and squealing inside ... OK and sometimes even to those around me ... quietly of course. It was literally a life-changing experience for me. I realized then that we must be their voice.
I never realized then how much more threatened they would become. My wish is that everyone could one day see these amazing apex predators for themselves and realize how we need to protect them for future generations to come. So, please join me in celebrating them during this International Polar Bear Day!
I will go back to spend time with the polar bears one day, whether in AK or somewhere else. Until then I have these amazing memories and images to smile at. :-)
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The Polar Bear never makes his bed;
He sleeps on a cake of ice instead.
He has no blanket, no quilt, no sheet
Except the rain and snow and sleet.
He drifts about on a white ice floe
While cold winds howl and blizzards blow
And the temperature drops to forty below.
The Polar Bear never makes his bed;
The blanket he pulls up over his head
Is lined with soft and feathery snow.
If ever he rose and turned on the light,
He would find a world of bathtub white,
And icebergs floating through the night.
Sniffing the air as she walks by the photographer, a Polar Bear walks next to the Beaufort Sea on Barter Island. Barter Island is located on the north eastern part of the state. It is an Inupiat village, also known as Kaktovik. It is called Barter Island because the Alaskan Inupiat people would trade with the Canadian Inuit people on the island. Polar bear often time can be found wandering the village and need residents need to be vigilant of their presence.
a series of B&W images I took from the amazing encounter with mother and cub in the hour or so leading up to the mother killing a reindeer.
Huge male Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) patrolling the spit of land off the coast of Kaktovik, Alaska. You can only get this close - safely - with a telephoto lens, and shooting from a boat off the shore. This guy was sniffing the ground to see what other bears were in the area. He walked about a mile up the spit and approached every other bear in the area (about 20 individuals in total), messing with each of them.
Kaktovik, Barter Island, Arctic Alaska.
A moment of true tenderness. Mother polar bears are consumed with caring for their young. They will defend them to the death. Yet, it is difficult to see anything but tranquility and love in moments like these.
"PRESENTED TO STANLEY PARK ZOO June, 1962"
On this photo is one of the last bear kept in the zoo. Named 'Tuk' died in 1995 at 36 years old
(photo 1969)
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An hour earlier they endured a long and difficult swim across the icy bay. Mother bear went ahead of the cubs, breaking up the ice with her paws and body and creating a channel of relatively open water for them. Thought they’d be exhausted and sleeping after that ordeal, but the cubs - mainly the male in the center of this frame - had other ideas.
Another Polar Bear posing for the picture, Svalbard.
All the Arctic area and its ecosystem is endangered by the unlimited greed of powerful oil companies and some states that want to see the polar ice melt for their commercial interests. All this beautiful wildlife will soon disappear.
I had walked up the giant plush polar bear underneath the Christmas tree in Antwerp Central train station, when this adorable dog (Jimmy) wandered up to it to inspect the giant white thing. I was just too late to photograph him, so his friendly owners got him to go back and pose for me, which was super sweet of them :)
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Polar bears have very good eyesight and hearing although their sense of smell is their most highly developed sense. These remarkable bears have a transparent eyelid (nictitating membrane) that work like a pair of sunglasses filtering out the excessive brightness of snow and sun. They also work as waterproof goggles underwater.