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161                      <u><b>
162Polar Bear (also known as nanook, nanook of the north or great white bear) is a noble-looking animal and of enormous strength,
163                      	 living bravely warm amid eternal ice... They are the
164                      	 unrivaled master-existences of this icebound solitude. They will never
165                      	  attack a man unless it's hungry or unless someone aggravating him. It's
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182                      	   <H2>Polar Bear Facts & Information</H2>
183<br /><br />
184<b><u>Polar Bear</u></b> (scientific name: Ursus maritimus) is descended from 
185                   	<a href="http://www.bearplanet.org/brown-bear.php">brown bear</a> ancestors that 
186                   	became permanently bleached and reshaped by the harsh environment north of the 
187                   	Arctic Circle ( the polar bear habitat).
188                   	<br /><br />
189                    The polar bear is an excellent swimmer, with a long neck, powerful sloping shoulders, paddling membranes 
190                    that web half the length of its forepaws and a thick, oily fur that sheds seawater and helps insulate 
191                    the bear against the cold.
192                    <br /><br />
193                    Polar bears can swim for 80 Km in ice cold water without resting, and remain astonishingly 
194                    agile at the end of it.  They have a layer of subcutaneous fat, very similar to the blubber fat of sea mammals. 
195                    That can be as thick as 10 cm when winter starts, and it ensures the retention of body heat and a 
196                    low density that enables the animal to float more easily in water while swimming.
197                    <br /><br />
198                    Like most other bears, it spend most of its waking hours hunting food to fuel 
199                    its immense body and to build up the aforementioned thick layer of protective fat to keep it warm 
200                    in icy winds and water and to serve as sustenance during the long Arctic winter night. 
201                    <br /><br />
202                    <H3>Where do polar bears live</H3>
203                    <img src="images/polar-bear-tour.gif" width="278" height="128">
204                    <br />
205                    This massive white bear is an intelligent and crafty animal that is cursed with intense curiosity. 
206                    This may lead it to find new sources of food, but, like curious cats, can also lead it into trouble. 
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212	<H3>Polar Bear cubs (baby polar bear)</H3>
213                		<p>Most female polar bears mate at the age of four or five and some have cubs until they are 25 years old. 
214                			Females leave their babies when they are only one and a half years old and have cubs every second year.
215                			 Most females have twins.
216                			Mothers that are particularly young, and also the older females, often only have a single cub, 
217                			and 1% of all female polar bears have triplets.
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233                			Polar bear cubs nurse frequently and grow quickly.  
234                			Their sense of hearing develops at 26 days, and their eyes open at 33 days old. 
235                			When they are two months old (polar bear cubs picture below), the cubs weight 5.5 to 7.0 kilograms. 
236                			They play and romp and sometimes one can hear them squeal.
237                			<br /><br />
238                			The  mother can be  sleepy and self-indulgent , but if any danger threatens her cubs she is immediately wide awake and will defend her cubs with her life.  She will nurse her cubs for at least a year and the cubs will share her meals during the latter stages of nursing.
239											They watch her hunt and then start to hunt themselves. About 40% females leave their cubs when they
240											 are only one and a half years old. 
241<br /><br />
242                			 If they learn to hunt quickly, the  youngsters will have a good 
243											 chance of survival in this dangerous climate. 
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245												<H3>Polar bear hunting</H3>
246<br />
247                			"The polar bear is victim of a peculiar, and particularly repulsive , expression of man's egotism," noted the
248                			 <i>New York Times</i> in a 1965 editorial. 
249                			 ""Wealthy men have taken to hunting bears in Alaska from airplanes...
250                			 	<br /><br />
251                			This kind of hunt is about sporting as machine-gunning a cow. Its only purpose is to obtain the 
252                			bear's fur as a trophy for the floor or wall of someone's den." 
253                				<br /><br />
254                			<img src="images/baby-polar-bear-picture.gif" width="200" height="174" align="right" valign="middle">
255                			In Alaska until 1950, only Inuit hunted polar bears, and they rarely took more than 120 a year. 
256                			That year sports hunting began, and it soon gained worldwide notoriety because the bears were hunted 
257                			with planes. The principal reason  for this hunt was money.
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260                			<H3>Polar Bears are protected</H3>
261                				<p>
262                			For $3000 at first, and soon for double and triple that sum, the hunter was assured a bear, for the method
263                			of hunting the bears gave them no hope for escape. Two planes took off together and flew far out over the pack ice. 
264                			When a bear was spotted, the hunter's plane landed and the other plane drove the bear to within easy 
265                			shooting distance. Often both planes simply chased the bear until it collapsed in exhaustion.
266                  	<br /><br />
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268                			Then the 'sportsman' landed and shot the bear. In 1965, the hunters killed about 300 bears and 400 in 1966. 
269                			Today, however, the polar bear is protected and their status has been declared, at the recommendation 
270                			of the IUCN Polar Bear Group, as "Vulnerable".
271											The Marine Mammal Act signed by Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States gives 
272											polar bears a degree of protection that they have never previously had. 
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277                			<H3>The spirit of the polar bear</H3>
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279                			The Russian scientist S.M. Uspensky once found polar bear skulls carefully stacked in piles several 
280                			feet high on a remote Siberian beach where an ancient Arctic race had at one time prayed to the spirit 
281                			of the bear. The Ket, a tribe of central Siberia, regarded the bear as their ancestor. 
282                			They too, placed bear skulls in the fork of a tree and to this day the Ket refer to the bear as <i>gyp</i>,
283                		"grandfather," or <i>qoi</i>, "stepfather".
284                		<br />
285                		<img src="images/polar_bear_picture.gif" width="146" height="274" align="right" valign="middle">
286                		Neanderthal man and Arctic man lived in the deeply mystic and spiritual world of the hunter who must kill 
287                		in order to live. This was the ethos of the Inuit. The Inuit is a member of the Inuit people, the term having 
288                		official status in Canada and also used elsewhere as a synonym for the Eskimo in general. 
289                			<br /><br />
290                			However,
291                		this latter use, in including Siberians who are not Inupiaq-speakers, is, strictly speaking, not accurate).
292                		However, that apart, the Inuit believed that all animals and man had inua, "souls", and to ensure 
293                		future hunting success and harmony with the spirits of nature it was essential to placate the souls 
294                		of slain animals, especially an animal as huge and man-like as the bear.  
295                		The bear could stand upright, like an enormous hairy giant, and when skinned, with his pinkish blubber, 
296                		his finger-like claws and massive torso , looks gruesomely, horrifyingly like an immense naked human.
297										<br /><br />
298                		In this spiritual world of early Arctic man, animals were kin, an ancient belief reflected in totemism 
299                		and in fables and mythology. It was a mental world where the real and the unreal, the factual and the spiritual, 
300                		merged. A shaman of the Polar Inuit explained an unsuccessful polar bear hunt in an area where bears were 
301                		usually numerous, like this:" The bears are not here, because there is no ice here, and there is no
302                		 ice here because the wind is too strong, and the wind is too strong because we have insulted the spirits.
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345                  	<H3>Polar Bears Attack</H3><br />
346                  	The bears are usually friendly and rarely attack without serious provocation. But when hungry bears 
347                  	are nervous and irritable and driven by hunger, their behavior becomes erratic, unpredictable and they can
348                  	 be dangerous. 
349                  	 	<br /><br />
350                  	 	This is particularly true of  young bears (inexperienced hunters) and old bears. If polar bear attack 
351                  	 then it is surprisingly fast. Sometimes the Polar bear attacks in long, cat-like jumps, without uttering a 
352                  	 sound, or perhaps groaning. The bear becomes a tremendous concentration of strength and power, and there is little time left for escape. 
353                  	 The only known fatal polar bear attack is the attack on Hattie Amitnak in 1999. </p>
354                  <H3>Polar Bears Hunts</H3>
355                  <p>
356                  	<b>Polar bears hunt</b> in various ways but the main source of their high-fat diet is the blubber of 
357                  	Arctic seals. He has been known to paddle as far as 25 miles to reach a likely hunting place. The polar bear can 
358                  	smell farther than it can see and its hearing is also extremely acute. The bear's sense of vision, though, 
359                  	appears to be poor and it is probably myopic, or short-sighted..</p>
360                  <H3>Polar Bears Enemy</H3>
361                  <p>
362									  Despite the polar bear's awesome size it does not live completely free of danger. Large seals, nimbler in 
363									  the water than the bears, sometimes harry and nip at a swimming polar bear, and Arctic wolves on the mainland 
364									  may try to separate a mother bear from her young. 
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369									  	But though man is its worst enemy, the only animal a 
370									  polar bear really fears is the walrus. Powerful and belligerent, the ivory-tusked walrus is more than a match 
371									  for the polar bear. They are at constant enmity with the walrus and frequently both the combatants will 
372									  perish in the conflict<br />
373                    <div style="float: left"> <img src="images/polar_bear.gif" alt="PolarBear" width="65" height="83">
374                    </div> 
375                    <H3>Polar Bear attack walrus</H3>
376                    <p>
377                     If a bear knows that a walrus is in the water nearby, it will not go in because if they do meet in the walrus's 
378                     attack element, the bear is likely to be the loser. The sea mammal will drive its ivory tusks their 
379                     full length into the bear. Sometimes the bear has time to make an attack in return before the tusks kill it, 
380                     and because of that the bodies of a bear and a walrus have  several times been found locked together in death. 
381                     <br />
382                    However on the dry land a polar bear attack is usually fatal for a walrus.<br />
383                    <br /><i>Polar Bear pictures (attacks)</i>
384                    <img src="images/polar-attack.gif" alt="Polar Bear Attacks" width="200" height="134">
385                    <img src="images/polarbearattack.gif" alt="" width="200" height="147">
386                    <img src="images/polar-bear-attack.gif" alt="" width="200" height="152">
387                  </p><br />
388                    <H3>Polar bears, Nanook, the great white bear</H3>
389                    <p>
390                    The most famous of the spirit bears was found at Alernerk near the present village of Igloolik in 
391                    the Canadian Arctic. It is carved from ivory, 6 inches long, and it was made about 1,500 years a go. 
392                    The bear's body is elongate and it seems to fly. It is engraved with a stylized skeleton and there is a 
393                    tiny compartment in its neck, with a sliding cover which once may have held red ocher. 
394                    It probably depicts the spirit helper of a shaman.
395                    	<br /><br />
396                    Old men in the north still speak with respect of Nanook, the great white bear. But the world of magic, 
397                    when men and bear belonged to one realm, has ended and Southern man, whose culture swept the north of 
398                    its ancient beliefs, had no reverence for polar bears.
399                    	<br /><br />
400                    To him bear was a foe to satisfy the age-old craving of the mighty exotica. He caught the bear, 
401                    baited it and often killed it with fiendish cruelty, and he slaughtered it in hecatombs to amuse the plebs.  
402                   	<br /><br />
403                    During one famous day in 237 A.D. in the Colosseum, while 50,000 spectators jeered and cheered, 
404                    gladiators killed more than 1,000 bears, a spectacle sponsored by an immensely wealthy Roman who later 
405                    became Emperor Gordian I. 
406                  </p>
407                  <H3>The Polar Bear - The Ultimate Bear</H3>
408                		<p>
409                		The polar bear was the ultimate bear, white, huge, mysterious. The Jesuit missionary Bellarmine Lafortune 
410                		noted in the 1930 "A polar bear was hunted on foot and the hunter's greatest prestige came from his success 
411                		as a polar bear hunter". It was an extremely risky hunt. The ice often drifted away and many a King Islander, 
412                		hot in pursuit of a polar bear, was cut off from his home in this way; some returned safely 
413                		but others disappeared forever. 
414                			<br /><br />
415                		When a hunter returned with a bear, ancient ceremonies were observed to propitiate the bear's soul,  
416                		for during all this time, the spirit of the great white bear hovered unseen, but strangely felt, about the
417                		 village. If offended, it would depart in anger, and evil might strike the entire community. The bear's skull 
418                		 was taken to the kagri, the communal house, and placed upon a raised bench. 
419                		 	<br /><br />
420                		 	It remained in this place of honor 
421                		 until the polar bear dance. Gifts were placed near the bear skull: skin scrapers, needle cases and ulus,
422                		  the semi-lunar woman's knife, if the bear was a female, and a carving knife or drill, if the bear was a male.
423                		   The gifts had their own spirits and essence, and these became the property of the bear's inua, its soul.<br />
424                	</p>
425                	<H3>The magic power of polar bears</H3>
426                	<p>
427                		To absorb the magic power of the bear, many Inuit wore amulets, most often a bear tooth as a pendant.
428                		 The Inuit shaman needed more; he wanted the bear's spirit to be his tornaq, his magic helper. It was a quest 
429                		 fraught with enormous danger. The bear spirit, the "flying bear" could take the shaman to the moon, or deep 
430                		 into the sea, to seek help for his people, the mother of seals and whales and walruses. And the bear spirit 
431                		 could protect his master from the power of evil.
432                			</p>
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442                  	<strong><font color="2c3648"><u>Polar Bear Facts</u></font></strong><br>
443                  	<img src="images/id.gif" alt="PolarBear" width="88" height="83">
444                  	<ul>
445                  		<li><b>Name:</b> Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)</li>
446                  		<li><b>Kingdom:</b> Animalia</li>
447                  		<li><b>Phylum:</b> Chordata</li>
448                  		<li><b>Subphylum:</b> Vertebrata</li>
449                  		<li><b>Class:</b> Mammalia</li>
450                  		<li><b>Subclass:</b> Theria</li>
451                  		<li><b>Order:</b> Carnivora</li>
452                  		<li><b>Family:</b> 	Ursidae</li>
453                  		<li><b>Age at Maturity:</b> 3 o 5 years</li>
454                  		<li><b>Length of life:</b> 	20 - 30 years in the wild.</li>
455                  		<li><b>Size:</b> 130 to 190 cm</li>
456                  		<li><b>Weight:</b> 400 to 600 kg males<br /> 200 to 300 kg females</li>
457                  		<li><b>Habitat:</b> Annual ice adjacent to shorelines throughout the circumpolar Arctic</li>
458                  		<li><b>Diet:</b> Seals, narwhals, walruses, belugas, grass, kelp and berries</li>
459                  			<li><b>Gestation:</b> 6 to 9 months</li>
460                  			<li><b>Cubs:</b> Average 2</li>
461                  			<li><b>SubFamily:</b> Ursinae</li>
462                  		<li><b>Genus:</b> Ursus</li>
463                  		<li><b>Polar Bear Predators:</b> Human, wolves (two known records of polar bear cubs killed by packs of wolves), </li>
464                  		<li><b>Distribution (Where do polar bears live):</b> Throughout the circumpolar Arctic, as far south as Newfoundland</li>
465                  		</ul>
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