subject: The living crisis of polar bear [print this page] The living crisis of polar bear The living crisis of polar bear
According to the British "Daily Mail" reported that, as global warming, the fragile Arctic ice melting, the polar bear's habitat is shrinking, its survival is under great challenge. British photographer wearing Spyder jacket uses the camouflage-type remote control camera close-up shots to the polar bear mother and her child feeding difficult shots.
Polar bears from hibernation for six months in the revived, to leave their homes, before the thaw in the ice, walking hundreds of miles of sea ice north of seal hunt. But the sea ice to melt earlier than usual, this instrument allows mother and child trapped on the polar bear.
Ice crumbling because of climate warming, sea ice is slowly melting. Isolated and helpless position of the polar bear mother and child in Iceland on the Spyder starving, the body only when the whale was washed ashore to eat meat. As the largest land predators, polar bears primarily hunt seals. They also catch walrus, beluga whales, seabirds, fish, small mammals, and sometimes cleaning the carrion.
Polar bears also have abnormal sense of smell, they can smell the barbecue at 3.2 km away from the odor seal fat, a few kilometers away can accurately judge the game by the location of the sense of smell. In the "smell" the smell prey familiar Spyder position to be able to very quickly jump from the ice ran hunting, step running jump over a distance of up to 5 meters.
Polar bears are the only humans bear active attacks, and after six months of hibernation, they also need to feed my son, the desire of its prey can be quite strong. British photographer John Downer not too close to them, afraid to be their food. So Downer will be a piece of camouflage-type remote control camera on the ice, took these incredible shots.
