Sentences with phrase «animals like polar»

For one thing, year - round ice cover is important to animals like polar bears, which use it as their hunting grounds.

We have already started «events» that we know of, such as global warming (your expertise), and others that we don't, but will affect the leatherback and other animals like the polar bear in the Arctic.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

The negative impacts of warmer winters may be less evident in Nordic countries than in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of sea ice, according to Serreze.

«It's a tightknit community, but it's also a tight field, in that a lot of people are interested in the same overall questions» — for example, what are the evolutionary histories of humans, charismatic large animals like polar bears, and essential agricultural crops like maize.

«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.

Not exact matches

Forging deeper into the house, one sees a continuing variety of mounted trophies — goats, sheep, polar bears and whatnot — and, indeed, when the Days weary of one particular animal's presence, they can go into a living - room closet and choose a substitute head to their liking, including the remains of a homegrown buffalo that died of old age.

This month, momstown's theme is Polar Animals, so to help remember how tiny our little one's toes are, we made some footprints to look like polar aAnimals, so to help remember how tiny our little one's toes are, we made some footprints to look like polar animalsanimals.

I've never liked zoos, preferring to see animals in their natural setting, but polar bears are only found within the Arctic Circle, one of the remotest places on earth.

Glaciers are melting and arctic animals, like the polar bear, are increasingly losing their home and becoming endangered.