The World of Polar Bears

Index

Attack on humans

Behavior
Birth
Body temperature
Blubber, polar bear
Breeding

Carnivore lethargy
Classification, scientific
Claws
Coloration
Communication
Conservation
Cub

Delayed implantation
Den
Diet
Diesease
Distribution
Diving

Ears
Eyes

Feet
Food and feeding
Fossil record
Fur

Habitat
Hair
Head
Hearing
Heart rate
Hibernation
Home range
Human interaction

Lead
Longevity

Marine Mammal Protection Act
Migration
Molting

Nostrils
Nursing

Parasites
Population
Predators

Skin
Size
Smell
Social structure
Starvation
Swimming

Tactile
Teeth
Thermoregulation
Tracks

Vocalizations

Zoological parks

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References and Bibliography / Books

References and Bibliography Derocher, A.E. and I. Stirling. “Observations of aggregating behaviour in adult male polar bears (Ursus maritimus).” Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, 1990, pp. 1390-1394 Dalziel, Ia ...

Conservation

A. First International Scientific Meeting on the Polar Bear, 1965 Growing public concern about polar bear hunting and other human activities in the Arctic, such as oil exploration, led to the First International Scientific Meeting ...

Longevity and Cases of Death

A. Longevity Polar bears can live 20 to 30 years, but only a small proportion of polar bears live past 15 to 18 years (Stirling, 1988). The oldest known polar bear in the Arctic lived 32 years. The oldest known polar bear in a zoo ...