An adorable video shows the moment three tiny polar bear cubs emerged from their den with their mum on the remote island of Svalbard, Norway. The incredible footage took scientists almost a decade ...
"Every den we monitored had its own story," Archer said. Polar bear cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. | Credit: Dmytro Cherkasov ...
The study is the first to combine collar data with camera footage of polar bears. "Every den we monitored had its own story," Archer said. Throughout the study period, the moms and cubs first emerged ...
Polar bear cubs are born blind and weigh about a pound. The period after birth until they first climb out of the den is considered critical, as less than 50% of cubs make it to adulthood ...
Video shows a mother and her cubs emerging from their den for the first time in Svalbard, Norway. The video was taken during a 10-year study by Polar Bears International, the Norwegian Polar Institute ...
Although critical to cubs, denning can be tough on a mother. Pregnant female polar bears usually enter a den in the fall, give birth in mid-winter, and remain in the den nursing their cubs until ...
Polar bear cubs are born in December or early January. Scientists have captured a rare new footage of polar bear cubs emerging from their dens for the first time. The footage shows a mother polar ...
The first months of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub's life are spent in a den of ice, where the warm bodies of their mother and siblings protect its initially hairless body from the lethal Arctic ...
It shows a mother polar bear walking through the frozen landscape — then a cub pops up out of the den and slips and slides over the ice toward her. As the cub reaches its mom, another two emerge ...
Polar bear cubs are incredibly cute — and amazingly elusive ... so that we can work to protect cubs and therefore the species.” While every den told its own story, scientists analyzing the footage ...
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