Sentences with phrase «when polar bear»

This is a great read for fall, when polar bear encounter stories abound.

When the polar bear come to take a pea, Kick him in the ice hole!

When polar bears» feeding opportunities decrease during the summer ice melt, the animals can reduce their energy expenditure a little, but not enough to make up for the food shortages, a study in the 17 July issue of Science shows.

And it's sad when polar bears have no ice for their food hunt.

Climate warming is reducing the availability of their ice habitat, especially in the spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore for the summer.

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

In fact, Arctic ice growth in the second half of September was rapid and there is now more ice than there was at this date in 2007 and 2012 (when polar bears in those regions considered most at risk did not die off in droves).

Climate warming is reducing availability of their ice habitat, especially in spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore in summer.

-- DQ Lindsay Abrams — Salon — November 22, 2014 When polar bears attack: How climate change is creating a new breed of unlikely killers As the ice caps melt, -LSB-...]

Conclusions Early ice breakup in summer and / or late freeze - up in fall can not exclusively be blamed when polar bears struggle to get through the ice - free period.

when you've forgotten about when polar bears used to roam the arctic, don't worry kid, i've got tons of pictures of how they lived — all housed in a datacentre in that building over there....

Across the Arctic, there has been only a marginal decline in total sea ice extent (Fig. 6) between March and June, the critical spring feeding period when polar bears require the ice as a hunting platform for gorging on young, fat seals.

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?

When I started the company, I was all «hugs and whales and save the polar bears.»

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.

John Kuhns dad was a polar bear and his mom was the corpse of a dead seal which makes sense because when it get's cold out side he likes to show off his bear arms.

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

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.

Go for the plain side when layering, or bring out the polar bear print for guaranteed cuteness.

When you visit the Nature Museum, you will definitely notice that something is missing on the first floor... our polar bear mount.

Legislator Rath noted the exceptional attention to detail and size of the polar bear when naming it the winner.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

Scientists first noticed this deadly phenomenon in 2004 when they noticed four drowned polar bears in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's North Slope.

Nielsen estimates that polar and brown bears split from their common ancestor 479,000 to 343,000 years ago, when Arctic conditions were mild.

In this way, tiger sharks are similar to terrestrial carnivores, such as hyenas and polar bears, which will selectively scavenge when the opportunity arises.»

Yet, brown bears and polar bears, when they meet, can mate, as evidenced both by the genetic record and observations in the wild.

When my daughter was young, I tried explaining evolution to her by using polar bears as an example of a «transitional species» between land mammals and marine mammals, but that was wrong.

During hibernation polar bears maintain crucial muscles so that they are still physically strong when they wake up.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

«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.»

«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.

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 crew's casual, approachable demeanor, I decide — as they wrap up the meeting with a discussion of how to fend off two polar bears when you have only one shotgun — is not so much in opposition to their inner intensity as a necessary complement to it.

Before the melt, when they were hunting on stable sea ice, the polar bears had a big advantage over their favoured prey.

According to Prop, several dozen of Svalbard's polar bears have learned when and where to return each year for the best meals.

When the liquid silk «thread» passes through the ring, ice crystals grow within the thread in layers, similar to the layers of pores in polar bear fur.

When he co-wrote a (non-peer reviewed) paper in 2007 arguing that Arctic warming wasn't happening and polar bears were not threatened by the effects of it, we found that ExxonMobil and the billionaire Koch brothers had paid for it.

When she's not in the kitchen, you might find her chasing after her Golden Retriever, spending time with her husband, making questionable puns, filling her house up with plants, trying to practice yoga, nerding our over nutrition books and doodling pictures of polar bears onto the backs of her grocery receipts.

It's like my feet are getting hugged by a friendly polar bear when I wear them.

Are you the type of individual that can easily write a job resume, but when it comes to providing delicate information about yourself, you end up playing the game, find the polar bear in a white snowstorm on your blank piece of paper or computer screen?

However, life becomes no laughing matter for the other polar bears, reindeer and orca that exist in their icy habitat when humans start visiting with cameras, boats.

From a certain point of view, it's a polar bear version of The Little Mermaid as Norm is influenced by human culture when a little girl drops hr MP - 3 Player and Norm learns to dance.

Sala and his team discover that pristine seas feature an inverted food chain, with an abundance of predators like sharks, polar bears, seals and crocodiles, which thrive when safe from fishermen and hunters.

We also can use support personnel to photograph and record video of the polar bears in action, and to help when they return to the beach, and a few other tasks to assure that the morning goes smoothly.

Svalbard is also a great place to visit during the Summer months when the focus is on the amazing wildlife (walrus, whales, polar bears, birds, etc) and the environment.

Watch Polar Bears venture on to the frozen Hudson Bay nearby Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world When: October / November Where: Churchill, Hudson Bay Trip Duration: It is recommended to go on a multi day trip How much: Varies

She was intrigued when these keyword searches would turn up, say, a 1930s photo of a man in a polar - bear costume accompanied by a woman in a bathing suit on a beach in Germany.

She intended to work on coyotes in Westchester County but when I offered the opportunity to shift to polar bears in the Canadian Arctic she jumped on board and became fascinated with the project, the Arctic and especially the people.

It is not just be the polar bears that will suffer when the global climate is disrupted.