Winter Animals: Polar Bear

Photography by Norbert Rosing

Found on http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/polar-bear/?source=A-to-Z

Where they live:  Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia

Habitat: Arctic ice sheet, coastlines, and tundra

Food: seals,walruses, and beached whales

Length:  6.6 to 10 feet

Weight:  males - 660 to 1760 pounds

               females - 330 to 660 pounds

Animal class: mammal

Scientific name: Ursus maritimus

                                        ----- From Caroline's Arnold's Animals

                                                 A Polar Bear's World by Caroline Arnold

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