Sentences with phrase «more polar bears»

To his surprise, he learned that there «are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago,» and they are literally overrunning many areas, surpassing their habitat's carrying capacity.

Apparently there are more polar bears on Svalbaard than humans and the humans are permitted to carry guns for protection against these beastly predators.

«Gallo is as unchangeable as the ice caps used to be, and he blinks at Inglis in confusion while booming nonsense to his listeners with the voice of God: «We've got more polar bears than we've ever had before!»

* less ice, but more polar bears The US government disagrees with you.

In fact, Svalbard has more polar bears residing on its soil than humans.

Activist polar explorer Børge Ousland's told National Geographic that more polar bear encounters on land are due to reduced sea ice — without any reference to population changes over that time or revealing when or where these observations were made.

More polar bear seal prey info here.

Not exact matches

Choose from species like polar bears, three - toed sloths, pandas, emperor penguin chicks, monarch butterflies and more.

While perhaps lacking the variety boasted by some big - city zoos to the south, it's well - known for an impressive collection of Arctic animals, such as polar bears, snow leopards, wolves, seals, otters and more.

This means that to open the door, one would need to overcome more than 24,000 pounds of pressure — about the weight of six cars or 20 polar bears.

I feel everyone should sip $ 11 coffee's at trendy coffee shops, listen to underground acoustic music, care more about polar bears than humans, wear black framed glasses to look really kewl and smurt, jog in place at red lights, drink Pabst blue ribbon, hate God, and be ironic.It's the kewl and smurt way to be.

When he teed off at 8:12 for his morning round, Nicklaus looked more like a polar bear than the Golden Bear he uses as a trademark; he was wearing three sweaters, a knitted yellow dickey and a rain sbear than the Golden Bear he uses as a trademark; he was wearing three sweaters, a knitted yellow dickey and a rain sBear he uses as a trademark; he was wearing three sweaters, a knitted yellow dickey and a rain suit.

With polar bears, sea lions, penguins and more plan to spend 1 - 2 hours here with the animals.

Female polar bears prowling springtime sea ice have extreme weight swings, some losing more than 10 percent of their body mass in just over a week.

Wallach and colleagues gathered research on the life cycles of more than a hundred species of mammalian carnivores — from polar bears and panthers to skunks and stoats — and documented examples of large predators that apparently regulate their own numbers.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

For example, the polar bear specimen from roughly 120,000 years ago survived in Svalbard during a warm interglacial period because that Arctic archipelago remained more frozen than other areas.

Because polar bears have been spending more time off the ice in recent years, they appear to have begun to interbreed with adjacent brown bear populations, and some of these hybrids are into their second generations.

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.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

They then used the satellite record of Arctic sea ice extent to calculate the rates of sea ice loss and then projected those rates into the future, to estimate how much more the sea ice cover may shrink in approximately three polar bear generations, or 35 years.

«Avalanches: A force more deadly than polar bears.»

With footage of frolicking polar bear cubs, mesmerizing time - lapse video of a frozen waterfall thawing in spring, and an up - close look at how rising temperatures are ravaging those environments, Frozen Planet has something for everyone — even those whose tastes run more to sitcoms than documentary.

One warm and fuzzy note: an Icelandic team uncovered a polar bear jawbone from the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago that dated to more than 100,000 years ago, suggesting that the animals are capable of weathering prolonged warm spells.

A longer food chain for top predators such as polar bears, belugas and walruses means they would be more highly exposed to mercury, since it magnifies each step up.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

«The big question for conservation of polar bears is if hybridization occurs rapidly and in combination with other stressors, will that hybridization have more of a negative effect now than it did in the past,» says Andrew Whiteley, a geneticist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Stirling's team found that around the town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay — the «polar bear capital of the world» — the number of bears reported as attacking humans, homes and hunting camps more than tripled between 1970...

As sea ice disappears, polar bears are being forced to hunt more on land, which brings them into conflict with humans and increases contact with brown bears.

With more genomes in hand, researchers are teasing out when and how polar bears came to be so successful in such a harsh habitat.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

Because Kaktovik's polar bears seem especially susceptible to the Arctic's shrinking sea ice, researchers are concerned they may start relying more heavily on nutrient - poor food from land.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

Thinner sea ice is getting pushed farther by Arctic winds, which makes polar bears walk more to stay in the same place, increasing their need for food.

He has observed polar bears eating more than 200 eggs in 2 hours, and last year no chicks or eggs of any species — barnacle geese, eiders, and glaucous gulls — survived.

CLIMATE change may be driving more aggressive polar bears to areas where people live, and the consequences could be lethal.

This means polar bears need to eat more seals than we thought.

Species such as fin and humpback whales are now spending more time in the Arctic, and boreal species such as the red fox and brown bear now interact more routinely with their arctic counterparts — the arctic fox and polar bear.

Although it will not help Knut any more, or other bears in the past, because of the new knowledge on pathogens in polar bears the zoos can now begin to develop management strategies to minimize their occurrence,» commented Professor Heribert Hofer, head of the IZW.

Retraction watch notes: Caught Our Notice: Climate change leads to more... neurosurgery for polar bears?

Mann and Lewandowsky's polar bear paper enters bizzaroland: Climate change leads to more... neurosurgery for polar bears?

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

And the conclusion of the new paper, in Bioscience, seemed likely to draw the ire of many who objected to the earlier work: Continue reading Caught Our Notice: Climate change leads to more... neurosurgery for polar bears?

Like every other species that diverges — splits into two or more distinct species — brown bears and polar bears underwent a speciation event.

There are few things I love more than a conversation - starting critter and this polar bear ring and this bee cuff are no exceptions.

It was much more user - friendly than most of the others and no, there were no polar bears.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.

Better yet, if a forum was available for these types of films, maybe discussions would be more substantial and productive, and wouldn't degenerate into heated discussions about the Americans vs. British, whether or not polar bears should guard the Fortress of Solitude, or whether some unread script is any good.

The appearance of polar bears in the South should a a tip - off that something more than mundane is going on.