Polar bears are the largest land predator in the world. They live in the Arctic, Alaska, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway. These countries are located at the north pole. Arctic bears are solitary animals and are active all year round.
Physical
Male polar bears can reach a height of 3 meters and weigh more than 635 kilograms. The female polar bear reaches a height of 2.2 meters and weighs 295 kilograms. Polar bears are excellent swimmers.
They can cruise through water at speeds of up to 9.6 kilometers per hour using their front legs to propel forward and rear legs to propel.
With their eyes and nostrils open, they can dive well and can survive two minutes in the water. When they get to land, they will wag their bodies so that the water doesn't stick to the feathers. The claws on the paws of polar bears help them to keep them from slipping on the ice.
Mating
Season Spring is when polar bears look for mates. The highest activity usually occurs around April. Male polar bear looking for female polar bear. Female polar bears usually give birth every three years after separating from their cubs.
In October and November, polar bears dig burrows in the snow or tundra. The burrows are usually located on south-facing slopes, winds from the north causing very large snowdrifts. The burrows are used by female polar bears to give birth to their cubs. Usually, female polar bears give birth to twins.
Polar bear cubs are born in November or December and weigh about 0.4 to 0.9 kilograms. At birth, cubs are hairless, blind and deaf.
These babies will emerge from the burrows for the first time in March or April. They will stay with their mother for 28 months to learn how to survive.
The female mother protects her baby aggressively. The female parent does not get any help from the male parent in raising and protecting her young. In fact, male polar bears sometimes kill cubs within their own species.
Hunting
The main food of polar bears is seals. They wait for the seals to come to the surface to breathe or stalk the seals as they rest on the ice. Polar bears kill seals by hitting the seal's thin skull. Then, prey on them.
Polar bears prey on all seal bodies. In late summer or early autumn, polar bears walk along the coast in search of the carcasses of stranded whales or walruses.