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The polar bear pictured balancing a ball on the tip of its nose is a female currently living at the Brno Zoo in the Czech Republic.
Cora, as this polar bear is named, appears to be quite fond of performing such tricks, most likely to help pass the time and entertain its cubs, Kometa and Nanuk.
One of Cora's ... |
22 May 2013
03:13 GMT |
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News from Moscow says that three polar bears are being held hostage by oil companies. The bears have been chained to oil barrels and abandoned in front of the office building of Statoil, a Norwegian energy firm. Or so Greenpeace says.
As you have probably figured out by looking at the picture above, these bears are... |
26 April 2013
03:20 GMT |
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This April 1, a polar bear somehow made it all the way from the Arctic to Russia's Kremlin. The picture above shows the polar bear using a paddle and its paws in order to navigate the Moskva River. “Help!” and “Arctic Not for Sale,” read the two banners that this polar bear wishes the Rus... |
1 April 2013
09:56 GMT |
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This past Friday, a baby polar bear named Luna got the chance to experience first-hand what it feels like to be at the center of attention.
Long story short: this 3-month-old bundle of fur finally made her public debut at the Buffalo Zoo in upstate New York.
Sources report that “Luna” is merely a nick... |
2 March 2013
15:41 GMT |
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This past Halloween, one very brave bear at the San Diego Zoo saved both staff and visitors by tackling and drowning Victor Frankenstein's monster.
As the picture shows, the bear showed no mercy and was quick in dragging the monster into the water.
Seeing how polar bears are great swimmers, we can only suspe... |
2 November 2012
09:32 GMT |
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We already presented you one polar bear that wished to outshine John Travolta in his younger years by putting on quite a show.
The time has now come to emphasize that, besides being spectacular ice dancers and amazing predators, polar bears are also incredibly gifted when it comes to doing absolutely nothing.
Tru... |
26 September 2012
09:14 GMT |
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A wildlife photographer recently managed to take some pretty hilarious photos of a young polar bear which was desperately trying to balance itself on the ice.
As the photographer explains, “Young bears are always trying to stand and get a better look at what's around them, as their mother do, but they ar... |
3 September 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Quite a while ago, two polar bears living at a zoo in Germany became gravely ill. Unfortunately, out of the two, only one managed to survive, in spite of efforts made to save them both.
Once an autopsy was performed on the dead polar bear, it was learned that a viral infection caused a swelling in its brain, and th... |
22 August 2012
05:47 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the modern polar bear appeared as the result of a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. In other words, the species was produced by brown bear mating patterns, coupled with ancient bouts of climate change.
The conclus... |
24 July 2012
03:37 GMT |
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A collaboration between music band Radiohead and actor Jude Law brings us a new video aimed at raising awareness with respect to the importance of saving the Arctic region and the animals living there.
As Greenpeace already warned us countless times, oil and gas companies are planning to begin drilling operations t... |
3 July 2012
07:09 GMT |
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Whilst a life-size polar bear dummy is made to walk the streets of London, a slightly bigger one is sent up in the skies above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It is not hard to guess why Greenpeace members chose this particular location as the proper place to launch their environmentally friendly balloon: the Rio+20 Earth ... |
22 June 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Greenpeace's “Save the Arctic” campaign, which we reported on only yesterday, takes an interesting turn as members of the said organization make British citizens come face to face with a polar bear roaming the streets of the country's capital city. Granted, the polar bear wasn't a real, f... |
22 June 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Recently, heavy downpours in Minnesota lead to massive floods in the region and took their toll on the Lake Superior Zoo.
Thus, many animals ended up drowned in their cages, as their caretakers could not rescue them in time.
However, Berlin, the polar bear, and one of the seals, took advantage of the situation as... |
21 June 2012
04:47 GMT |
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BBC is currently accused of misleading the audience, encouraging its public to believe that a footage of a newly-born polar bear cub was filmed in the wild, when it was actually produced in an animal park from Germany.
Even though the creatures were not born in their natural habitat, born “beneath the snow&rdq... |
12 December 2011
03:57 GMT |
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It seems that genuine polar bears are far from being those cute creatures we spot in TV commercials resting on banks of ice. A recent study shows that these animals eat their cubs and climate change might be behind this rare case of cannibalism. Photojournalist Jenny E. Ross has identified a disturbing incident of t... |
9 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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A team of researchers from Durham University and the Zoological Society of London, have carried out a study on eleven species of carnivores and concluded that larger species are more vulnerable than small species, to environmental changes.The reason for this is that besides habitat change and over-hunting, these anim... |
25 November 2010
02:58 GMT |
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, along with Interior Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, were sued by the Center for Biological Diversity, for failing to qualify one of their petitions as having merit or not. The legal time for the FWS to reply has passed, so the organization, which successfully petitioned for the adding of... |
8 December 2008
02:27 GMT |
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Zookeepers at Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, had the surprise of their life, when they noticed that the bear they took care of for more than 4 years was actually a female, instead of a male, as the medical certificate said. The cream-colored animal lived with his designated pair – another female –... |
26 November 2008
11:00 GMT |
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A new international report details the Arctic situation more thoroughly, pointing out the changes that the North Pole region has undergone since 2007, in terms of ice movement and marine/wildlife developmental trends. According to the new study, this year's amounts of molten ice in the area are second only to th... |
17 October 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Arctic ice is at a second lowest level this year, further limiting the natural habitat of the polar bears, which hugely affects their behavior as they are now prone to drowning and starving. As we've recently shown, Arctic ice levels are in a constant free fall, as according to Walt Meier, a research scien... |
24 September 2008
10:38 GMT |
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