are polar bear in alaska?
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Polar bears occur throughout the northern polar region. In the winter, polar bears in Alaska are found as far south as St. Lawrence Island and occasionally move down to St. ... In the summer, bears are most abundant around the edge of the pack ice in the Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean.
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Kodiak bears are a unique subspecies of the brown or grizzly bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).
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Brown bears live throughout Alaska and are the only bear species found in Sitka. ... The bears generally avoid encounters with people.
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Ticks are common in many parts of the world, including Alaska. Alaska is home to six native tick species, or ticks that have historically been found in the state. Several non-native (or invasive) and medically-important tick species have been found in Alaska on animals or on people who have traveled from out of state.
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Do Polar Bears Eat Arctic Foxes. Yes polar bear do eat Arctic Foxes but only when it is unable to find its regular prey to hunt which is bearded and ringed seals. So polar bear will only go for hunting arctic foxes when its regular food is scarce and it will eat anything to satisfy its hunger.
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Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present. Because of their dependence on the sea ice, polar bears are classified as marine mammals. ... Historically, the polar bear has also been known as the "white bear".
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Bears. Only four species of bear are hibernators: American Black Bear, Asiatic Black bear, Brown bear and Polar bear. These furry mammals don't hibernate in the true sense because their body temperature only drops a little bit and they can wakeup at any moment.
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“All too frequently I hear from both vets and the public, 'We don't have ticks in Alaska,'" said Kimberlee Beckmen, a veterinarian with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. One species, generally found on squirrels and hares, is common in Alaska and native to the state, but those aren't the problem.
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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is a large bear, approximately the same size as the omnivorous Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).
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Food Preferences & Resources On occasion, polar bears kill beluga whales and young walruses. When other food is unavailable, polar bears will eat just about any animal they can get, including reindeer, small rodents, seabirds, waterfowl, fish, eggs, vegetation (including kelp), berries, and human garbage.
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Forty percent. That's the stunning population loss for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. The news comes from a new study linking the dramatic decline in this polar bear subpopulation in northeast Alaska and Canada to a loss of sea ice due to climate change.
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If you live near a zoo that has polar bears, you are very lucky, for they are becoming more and more rare. Last year on International Polar Bear Day, there were 54 polar bears in U.S. Zoos.
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Polar bear has a thick of layer of fat called blubber under their skin to keep their body warm.
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Polar bears are classified as marine mammals because they spend most of their lives on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. ... Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the US under the Endangered Species Act in May 2008.
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Black bears (Ursus americanus) are native to Newfoundland and Labrador. They are found throughout the province, although they are rarely observed on the Avalon Peninsula.
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT–For thousands of years, Inuit hunters have stalked polar bears across the Arctic, killing animals they revere to keep themselves, and their culture, alive. ... "Our annual harvest is between 450 and 500 bears a year.
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Fact #9: There are no penguins at the North Pole. But there are no penguins living at the North Pole or any other part of the Arctic. In fact, the birds live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. If you're looking for polar bears, of course, the areas around the North Pole is the right place.