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Bearbnb: Polar bears make themselves at home in abandoned village

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By Gege Li Dmitry Kokh Photographer Dmitry Kokh AN ABANDONED weather station and its surrounding settlement is an unconventional place to find polar bears, but then we are living in unconventional times. Dmitry Kokh Wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh happened upon the animals when the boat he was on took shelter from a storm at the … Read more

Startling Video From Yellowstone Shows Freeloading Grizzly Steal Prey From Wolves

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A video by the team at Yellowstone national park shows the extraordinary sight of a grizzly bear hunting alongside a pack of wolves, only to make off with their prey.  The footage, posted to the National Parks Service Facebook page in December, shows the multi-species pack hunting a large herd of elks. A few wolves break away … Read more

Polar Bears Keep Being Seen Hunting Reindeer, But There’s More to The Story

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Recently, scientists in Hornsund, Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic ocean – witnessed a polar bear pursuing a reindeer into the sea before killing it, dragging it ashore, and eating it.   The video that they captured was widely shared on news and social media platforms. Then, two days later, they saw the … Read more

Polar bears: Extreme lack of sea ice in Hudson Bay puts predators under pressure

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Sea ice in Canada’s Hudson Bay has been unusually late to form, raising fears over the impact on polar bears that hunt for seals on the ice Environment 6 December 2021 By Adam Vaughan A lone polar bear along Hudson Bay Cindy Hopkins / Alamy An extreme lack of sea ice in Canada this winter … Read more