Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...
University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson ...
Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, ...
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...
Polar bear fur resists ice because of a natural greasy coating called sebum. This helps them move quietly while hunting.
They are middle aged in bear terms. Polar bears can live into their early ... such a huge amount of space and the enclosures are very large and they (the bears) tend to use all the space." ...
but I am a big fan of the warm hearts of people here in Oakville.” Hundreds turned out for polar bear dips in Quebec, Nova Scotia and several other parts of Canada. Across the country in ...