The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into ...

This is the first time that such a long swim has been documented by satellite telemetry for polar bears. A sensor on the bear's collar sent different signals when it was in salty sea water compared to ...

A more typical long swim for a polar bear lasts for a few hours. When arctic sea ice is abundant, some remains even in the summer. In these conditions, polar bears don’t have to swim too far ...

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Adults are strong swimmers – they can swim for several hours to get from one piece of ice ... "I will never forget my 'first' polar bear. Today, it still drives me to do all we can to secure a future ...

recorded a polar bear swimming for more nine days and covering a distance of 687km (426 miles). Their findings were published in the Polar Biology journal. While polar bears are known to swim between ...

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar bears on the planet. an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores ... to attack for a bear, but it became clear that ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears face a growing risk of contracting viruses, bacteria and parasites that they were less ...

Polar-bear capital' warms too fast for the bears Migrating ... "It really suggests to us that that these bears can't eat and swim at the same time." An intriguing finding in the study was that ...

The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into the moat within the polar bear enclosure. To the shock of onlookers ...