Researchers strapped cameras to polar bears to get a first time look into their lives on land you already know that because of global warming Polar Bears are losing the ice they need to hunt seals as that ice melts they often end up back on land where they need to
Eat different foods like eggs berries and Beluga bones but after attaching video cameras to 20 polar bears scientists learned that the food on land is rarely enough to satisfy their appetite in the video polar bears are seen conserving energy foraging hunting small animals and playing with other
Bears the team of us and Canadian scientists tracked the Bears in Northern Manitoba over three seasons they also monitored their calorie intake bears that moved less found less to eat but Bears who move more burned more calories on their quest for food it didn’t matter which survival strategy the Bears used
Nearly all of them ended up thinner meanwhile longer summers caused by climate change are causing a delay in their return to the ice every year polar bears are one of the hardest animals to study in the wild so experts hope that this data could really help with conservation a
Never-before-seen footage of polar bears in the wild show how they struggle to survive as the ice melts #polarbears #wildlife #climatechange #wildlifephotography
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