Get information, facts, and pictures about polar bear here. You can read here fun and interesting facts about Polar bears. Polar bears wander in the northern Arctic; they spend most of their time on ice floes and swim in that region’s coastal waters. Polar Bear is very strong swimmer, their large and slightly webbed front paws are used to their paddle.
Scientific classification:
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. maritimus
Polar Bear Facts:
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivore
Average lifespan in the wild: 25 to 30 years
Height: Average adult male 8.5 ft. (2.6 m), Average adult female 6.5 ft. (2 m)
Tail, 3 to 5 in (7.5 to 12.5 cm)
Weight: Average adult male 900 to 1,600 lbs (410 to 720 kg), Average adult female 500 lbs.
Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man
Color: Off-white fur with black nose, eyes and mouth.
Severe polar bear swim at hundreds of miles from land while they floating on sheets of ice and probably cover most of distance. They are the largest of the bear family as well as largest land meat-eater in the world. Living In the circumpolar north, Polar bears are a potentially dying-out species. They cushion across the ice from Russia to Alaska, from Canada to Greenland and onto Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. According to Biologists there are 20,000 to 25,000 bears with about sixty percent of those living in Canada.
At the newly meeting of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (Copenhagen, 2009) scientists reported that of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears, seven have insufficient data on which to base a decision, eight are declining, three are stable and one is increasing. They reported the change from five that were declining in 2005, five that were stable, and two that were increasing. For more information about Polar bears see here
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