A Few Dry Facts About The Polar Bear, The Nanoq PDF Print E-mail
Written by Carl Friis-Hansen   
Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:31
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  • Polar bears are called Nanoq in Eskimo language.
  • The female weigh about 250kg and the male about 500kg, but can grow to 750kg.
  • Their average lifespan is 16 years, but they can be up to 30 years of age.
  • The females rests in a den during wintertime if they are with cups, but they do not hibernate.
  • The males never go under ground and keeps hunting during the winter.
  • Their food consists of seals coming up for air through holes in the ice or sunbathe on ice or land.
  • They also eat sea birds, lonely muskox going walkabout, stranded whales and in the summer time berries and plants.
  • They can swim up to 40 nautical miles at a cruise speed of 5 knots.
  • Their only enemy is human beings hunting them and occasional fights among themselves.

The Nanoq seems to thrive in warmer years, which is hardly a surprise, as it is almost the harshest climate on the planet. They have a huge layer of fat and they have hollow transparent hairs, which gives them extra warmth from the Sun.

The Nanoq lives mostly in the north-east Greenland in an almost empty wilderness, so large it is almost unimaginable. This is the main reason, it is so difficult to estimate a trend in population. However, one man has done more than anyone else to cast some light over this subject, namely Mitchell Taylor, who has published 59 peer reviewed papers on mainly polar bears. Joanne Nova once wrote the article "Exile For Non-Believers", about how green groups with no particular credentials denied him reporting to the IPCC, because he does not believe in CO2 caused man-made global warming. According to Mitchell Taylor and others, it looks like the populations are stable after general hunting was forbidden years ago.
Last Updated on Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:44
 

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