Polar Bears

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Polar Bears

Kayla Gee

Stacy Clauson

Aladdia Anderson

Related Animals

Polar Bears are related to all bears. Like The American Black Bear, Spectacled Bear, And The brown Bear.

Herbivore? Carnivore? Or Omnivore?

Polar bears are Carnivores. In fact they are the worlds largest land

carnivore.

Predator or Prey?

Polar bears are predators. Their favorite food is the ringed seal, but they will also eat other kinds of seals.

What polar bears eat?

A polar bear usually eats seals but, if it can’t find any it will hunt for snow goose and vole.

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammal Order: Carnivore Family: Ursidae Genus: Urus Species: Urus Martimus

A cool adaption.

Most of the sun's rays pass through the hollow hairs of a polar bear and are trapped by the black skin to warm the bear with solar heating!!

How long polar bears live?

A polar bear that survives to adulthood commonly lives a little more than 20 years.

But cubs that leave their mom and are on their own usually dies after a year or two.

How much do polar bears weigh?

An average male polar bear weighs about 1,500 pounds, and females weigh about half that much.

A polar bears habitat. A polar bear lives in a very icy cold

climate. They also swim and spend lots of time on ice.

Where polar bears live.

They live at the top of the world. The icy region from the North Pole to the Northern coaster of Europe , Asia, and the North America which is called the Arctic.

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