Pols Reading Notes

The  frozen patronise (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its environ seas and surrounding land masses. It is the worlds largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the  all-devouring(prenominal) Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size.[3]An adult male weighs around 350680 kg (7701,500 lb),[4] while an adult female is about half that size. Although it is about related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with legion(predicate) body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and unfold water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet.[5] Although most charged bears are born on land, they spend most of their term at sea. Their scientific name means maritime bear, and derives from this fact. Polar bears can hunt their preferred food of seals from the jar against of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.
The polar bear is sort as a vulnerable species, with eight of the 19 polar bear subpopulations in decline.[6] For decades, large scale hunting increase international concern for the future of the species but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to exit effect.



For thousands of years, the polar bear has been a key figure in the material, spiritual, and cultural life of Arctic indigenous peoples, and polar bears the Great Compromiser important in their cultures.

Naming and etymology

Constantine John Phipps was the first to describe the polar bear as a distinct species in 1774.[7] He chose the scientific name Ursus maritimus, the Latin for maritime bear,[8]  collect to the animals native habitat. The Inuit refer to the animal as nanook[9] (transliterated as nanuq in the Inupiat language).[10] The Yupik also refer to the bear as nanuuk in Siberian Yupik.[11] The bear is umka in the Chukchi language. In Russian, it is usually called ?????? ???????? (bélyj medvédj, the white bear), though an older...



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