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Some polar bears have been getting chunkier—despite losing their main hunting grounds to climate change
Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice ...
Kali, now 13, was rescued as a cub in 2013 after residents of the Native Village of Point Lay, Alaska, discovered he’d been ...
ROYAL OAK, MI - A polar bear with an improbable survival story has just moved to Michigan. 13-year old Kali now calls the ...
It was 1992 in the remote village of Point Lay, Alaska. The Inupiat community numbered less than 100 people back then. Located on the edge of the Chukchi Sea, 230 miles north of the Arctic Circle, ...
The Detroit Zoo and the Toledo Zoo have exchanged the care of two polar bears as part of an effort to support breeding ...
Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...
Nuka first came to Detroit in January 2020. He moved to the Toledo Zoo from Detroit in February 2022 and was paired with female polar bear Crystal as part of a breeding effort. The match resulted in ...
Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their noses together in greeting and chuffed — a soft, breathy, snorting sound ...
Against the backdrop of Arctic warming, polar bears in Norway’s far north are gaining fat and feeding on new prey—a testament ...
To initially fit the bears with the collar cams, the researchers tracked them through the snow by helicopter last May.
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