All About Polar Bears
A Polar bears are amazing animals! Other names for these animals are white bears, sea bears, or ice bears. They are found throughout the arctic region and are excellent swimmers. They are known to swim 60 miles (97 kilometers) at a time and swim with only their two front paws, something that no other four-legged animals do. Find a way to celebrate National Polar Bear day on Feburary 27. From dressing up as a polar bear to having a stand in your yard to raise money for these fascinating animals. Another great way to particapate in National Polar Bear Day is to make your house a couple degrees colder and encougage your friends to do the same. This will help save the polar bears because one way they are dying is because there home is melting.
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The polar bear is a large animal. The male is much larger than the female and the male can weigh 900-1600 pounds (410-720 kg). This big animal grows to about 5.3 feet (1.6 meters) tall at the shoulders and 2.2-2.5 meters in length. Sunlight can pass through it's thick clear fur and the sunlight is absorbed by their black skin which makes their fur look white.
Polar bears are built to stay warm. Their feet have hairy soles to protect, insulate and help them move around the ice. They also have uneven soles in their feet which keep them from slipping on the ice. These animals' sharp, strong claws help them dig through the ice and and kill prey. Their prey is fish and walruses. They wait at the walruses' breathing hole (A hole in the ice so the walruses can come up and breath) and when the walrus comes up they attack. Polar Bears have no natural predators but wolves and walruses can kill them.
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Polar bears mate in the spring and have cubs (Baby polar bears) in the winter. The female has 1-4 cubs but most of the time they have two cubs. Polar bear cubs weigh less than 1 kg at birth. That is about the weight of 1 egg! Cubs stop feeding off of their mother after 2 years old. Baby polar bears may die of starvation or be killed by an adult male polar bear so mother polar bears are very defensive of their young when males are around. Females give birth at 4-8 years old and give birth again every 2-4 years after. These amazing creatures usually live from 25-30 years in the wild but can live to 35 in captivity.
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