A female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea swam an impressive 687 km. The study looked at 52 adult female polar bears wearing Global Positioning System (GPS) collars. Over 2004-2009, 50 long-distance ...

The polar bears faced no repercussions for the attack. A police spokesperson in 2009 told Der Spiegel: "The woman jumped in ...

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At 2:30 p.m. today, more than 2,000 people will sprint into English Bay for the 96th annual Vancouver Polar Bear Swim. Hundreds more will show up in White Rock, where registration begins at 11 ...

Their findings were published in the Polar Biology journal. While polar bears are known to swim between land and sea ice floes to hunt seals, the researchers say that increased sea ice melts push ...

A March-time polar bear plunge is not only a freezing dip for a good cause, it’s also a signal that spring is almost upon us. Each year, hundreds of people line up along the shoars of Olcott ...

Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of ...

Dec 26 - Dec 27 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 AM Add to Calendar 26-12-2024 13:00 27-12-2024 01:00 America/Toronto Nanaimo’s Polar Bear Swim 65th Annual Polar Bear Swim sponsored by Royal LePage – Nanaimo ...

Quick plunges aren't the only thing on the schedule, mind you; the beach house shares that "(t)he most stalwart Polar Bears can take part in a 300-yard swim around a buoy." Want to find new things ...

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar bears on the planet. an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores ... a small walrus colony. Adult walruses are too ...