Polar bear cubs are incredibly cute - and amazingly elusive. Their mothers dig dens under the snow in remote areas.
For nearly a decade, researchers have gathered camera footage from outside the dens of female polar bears and their cubs on ...
In the frigid Arctic, polar bear mothers and their cubs emerge each spring from snow dens that have sheltered them through ...
The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.
Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.
Polar bear mothers in the Arctic generally give birth in early January around the start of the new year. The cubs are born completely blind, do not have their signature snow-colored fur, and generally ...
Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den ...
The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.
Researchers have revealed astonishing new insights into the lives of polar bear cubs by studying them as they emerge from their dens. The scientists' study includes the first detailed footage of polar ...
With global warming affecting the bears’ food supply, researchers saw through the denning footage that polar bears are emerging earlier from their dens, which gives the cubs less time to develop, ...
Researchers use remote camera footage and satellite collars to gain new insights into polar bear denning behavior and cub ...
Unprecedented footage of polar bear snow dens reveals hidden new insights about the majestic animals. In the frozen wilderness of Svalbard, Norway, a mother polar bear and her cubs emerge from their ...