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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 – 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 – Frozen Planet
Well, we are just entering the most critical time of year for polar bears. Many cubs have emerged from the dens and seal hunting season is just beginning. We should have some pics from of new cubs soon but our friend from Watchee Lodge took 11,000 pictures so… it might take a while to sort through them. Judging from the spike in my site visits, it also appears that its arctic documentary season, I think … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – Breakup on Hudson Bay
Its fun with charts day! Along with almost everyone else, I have been a bit confused by the numbers being thrown around and stuff about breakup on Hudson Bay. After reading the latest research (Gagnon and Gough (2005), Scott and Marshall (2009), Stirling and Parkinson (2006), I figured I would just look at the Canadian Ice Service charts myself. I picked the first week of July because that kind of gives the best idea as … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog – Green Dots, Sunny Days and Dark Clouds
A bit of a round-up today… CITES Listing Upgrade Voted Down – The polar bear will not be upgraded to Appendix 1 Listing… in the end, the European Union ended up abstaining from the vote and without them, there is no real option to get the 2/3 votes needed to change the status. What was interesting (and I did miss this one…) was that the European block actually suggested a compromise. Basically, the Inuit quota … Continue reading
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Polar Bear Blog- CITES Polar Bear Listing Update
Well, let’s take another look at the players in CITES. A view from the north… and an attempt to clear up some of the media coverage such as this not-quite-right article in the Toronto Star. USA – Always leading the charge and why not… they really don’t have a lot of polar bears in their jurisdiction, little sport hunting and Kaktovik is becoming a tourist attraction. Nothing to lose, everything to gain. USA can actually … Continue reading
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