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Polar Bear Blog – Polar Bears and Ice Scars
The ice looks to be fairly good this year across much of the arctic and most reports are of a late spring (there was just a blizzard in Churchill yesterday…) so that’s more good news for the bears. There is a nice ‘floe edge’ near Churchill right now, some pictures of seals basking in the sun are floating around. At this time for year, seals both will haul out on the ice to warm up … Continue reading
Polar Bear Blog – Fred Bruemmer’s The Arctic
Fairly often, I find myself picking up one of Fred Bruemmer’s books and scanning through them again, even though I have read all of them over and over and over. Bruemmer was one of the first modern arctic explorers, environmentalists and writers, travelling the arctic in the 1960s and 1970s as well as one of the first polar bear photographers at Cape Churchill. An amazing life and an amazing writer. His work also puts some … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – Spring Seals, Wolves and Rangers
Its hunting time in the arctic. Leads, temporary cracks in the ice, have opened up and there are some nice floe edges around – where the ice meets the open ocean. Bears, seals and everything gather around these areas, its a ‘busy’ place. And, of course, out here you find seals giving birth in snow dens and polar bears looking for seals giving birth in snow dens. It is a bit of a mixed bag … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – Fox Versus Fox
Prime seal hunting season is just beginning out on Hudson Bay. The seal birthing season is likely underway and polar bears are likely now heading over to where the fast ice meets the sea ice. Throughout the spring, an assortment of scavengers follow the seal hunt as well. Adult polar bears tend to only eat the fat of young seals, essentially peeling them like bananas and scooping out the best parts. This leaves most of … Continue reading
Polar Bear Blog – Motherhood
For polar bears, motherhood actually starts in mid-September with pregnant females nestled into an earthen maternity den and the three month pregnancy just beginning. Near Churchill, cubs are born in early to mid-December once the den has become covered and insulated by a layer of snow. Less than one kilogram (2.2 lbs) at birth, they are blind, lightly furred and utterly helpless. There are usually two cubs born, sometimes just one if the mother is … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – We Learned Something About Bears!
Another new polar bear/sea ice study is out and this one is actually pretty good. Like, I actually learned something from reading it. I mean this study is actually about bears!!! Here is a link to the paper – it comes from the University of Alberta, authored by Seth Cherry with Derocher, Thiemann and Lunn. It takes an in-depth look at just when females bears (the only ones they can follow with radio collars) come … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – What’s Up in Bear Country
Mothers and cubs season seems to be coming to a close. The last tour group is in there right now, just waiting for word to see how the season ends up. Weather seems to have held, temperatures are actually heading up to the -10/-15C range, about five degrees above normal. Word from the west arctic actually seems pretty good too. Hunters in Tuktoyaktuk mentioned that they are seeing more tracks of mothers and cubs than … Continue reading
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Tagged churchill manitoba, foxe basin, hudson bay, mothers and cubs, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear denning study, polar bear research, watchee lodge
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Polar Bear Blog – Brown Polar Bears
There is a new study out talking about how the ABC grizzly bears are actually descendants of polar bears. Its a bit of a twist on a few theories about the ABC bears that I have read. First of all, what are ABC bears? Well, ABC stands for Admiralty-Baranoff-Chichagof (ABC) islands. This is a group of large islands near Juneau, Alaska – south of the Yukon but north of Queen Charlottes (although it appears these … Continue reading
