Sentences with phrase «polar bears do»

It's been known that polar bears do kill - and sometimes eat - their own kind for some time.

Historically warm periods = polar bears do fine, present period = they're going to become extinct.

Melting ice caps and a couple less polar bears don't really affect me, right?

Deep snow over birthing lairs (diagram above, see also Lydersen and Gjerz 1986) means ringed seal pups are well protected from polar bear predation — the seals do well but the polar bears do not.

After all polar bears do not have mailing addresses.

As if polar bears don't have enough problems, not only are they suffering due to climate change - related sea ice loss, but now new research indicates that pollution is giving them brain damage.

(And what will the polar bears do later, after they've decimated the available egg / duck / murre supply?)

A multiyear study found that polar bears do not enter a state of what is known as walking hibernation in summer months, when food is more scarce.

Despite decades of helicopter surveys, field research and the increasing use of satellite - monitored tags and the like, much of what polar bears do in the Arctic remains out of sight and unmonitored.

However, most Academy voters are just like you and me, and they'll choose the film because silly - looking pirates and talking polar bears don't stand a chance against giant f ****** robots!

Keep the rest of the outfit simple and let the penguins and polar bears do the talking!

Somewhere I read that a subspecies (population) of polar bears did not survive the Holocene; don't know how true that is.

Well polar bears didn't get that word.»

Polar Bears Have Big Feet has no gory images, no discussion of starving bears, climate change, or threatened species — just fabulous pictures of polar bears doing what they do in their natural Arctic habitat, accompanied by lighthearted descriptions.

Arctic ice didn't disappear, polar bears didn't die, sea level rise didn't accelerate, and there are no climate refugees from Tuvalu or Kiribati.

Let's hope that the survival of the polar bear doesn't become another hot potato that is tossed into the long grass - after burning one - too many fingers.

Tens of thousands of polar bears did not die as a result of more than a decade of low summer sea ice, for one simple reason: polar bears don't need sea ice in late summer / early fall as long as they are well - fed in the spring.

Not exact matches

Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?

In this super funny story, each person — from a firefighter on the way to answer a fire alarm to a zoo keeper on the way to feed the polar bears — stops what they are doing to go to the potty.

And researchers are not yet certain polar bears — which on ice lie in wait for, rather than chase after, prey — can do so on land.

The case of this one polar bear and the failure of her offspring to survive in the new environmental conditions of the Arctic doesn't bode well for the future of the species, especially as Arctic sea ice continues to retreat at a record pace.

She has done some work on polar bear evolution by working with modern polar bear DNA, for example.

«So if ice is melting in the Arctic — you might think well, poor polar bears, but it doesn't matter, right?

«We must do all we can to help the polar bear recover, recognizing that the greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change,» Salazar said.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Wednesday listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades.

Others accused Interior of delaying its listing of the polar bear as an endangered species until after business deals had been done in Alaska.

Although the polar bear's listing does recognize the impact of changing global conditions, the department is quick to point out that it does not assign blame for these conditions on anyone in particular.

The listing does not protect the polar bear from being hunted by natives for food and other resources.

«No, we did not hold off on the polar bear decision until the leases had been awarded, he said.

The decision was based on evidence that sea ice is vital for polar bear survival, that this sea ice habitat has been reduced, and that this process is likely to continue; if something is not done to change this situation, the polar bear will be extinct within 45 years, Kempthorne said.

«I'm not that in love with polar bears, and I don't think they'd like me too much either,» Waz said, phone hanging over his shoulder as he types another instant message.

Surprisingly, the 17th - century winterers did not use polar bear skins to make clothes, as later polar travellers did.

«I can't imagine having to tell her when she's grown up that the polar bears became extinct,» he said, «because we didn't act soon enough to combat a problem that we knew was real but that we couldn't convince the public of.»

But since the match between the two hairs and the ancient polar bear resulted from a fragment just 104 DNA letters long, the result is preliminary, and the team hopes to do further analysis.

The hairs did not match modern polar bears.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

«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.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

Warmer temperatures have allowed grizzly bears and polar bears to venture to habitats they don't usually occupy and mate to form a hybrid: the pizzly or grolar bear.

Did you know polar bear fur is transparent?

How do we get past the starving polar bears phenomenon, to realize a rapidly changing Arctic definitely includes us?

So how exactly did some brown bears become polar bears?

On any given day you might find John Durant running barefoot through Central Park, experimenting with intermittent fasting, or doing a polar bear swim in the Atlantic.

John studied evolutionary psychology at Harvard under Steven Pinker before moving to New York City and becoming a «professional caveman»: mimicking a hunter - gatherer diet, running barefoot through Central Park, experimenting with intermittent fasting, and doing polar bear swims in the Atlantic.

Sometimes I feel like I do it all wrong and end up looking like a polar bear..

How much does a polar bear weight?

The film does sprinkle in a few deliberate 3D effects, most noticeably in the ice - shattering opening credits graphics, a map that morphs into a CG globe, and an up - close polar bear exhale.

You get the feeling that the walrus and caribou were just there to fill time since they probably didn't have enough polar bear footage, but even if that is the case, the film is still a decent enough nature doc.

Now, for half a million dollars: «Do polar bears eat penguins?»

We did exactly that — not only for dogs and cats, but for large carnivores, such as lions, tigers, polar bears and wolves in zoos and animal reserves worldwide.