do polar bears eat narwhals
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Polar Bears 1 Polar bears feed mainly on ringed and bearded seals. Depending upon their location, they also eat harp and hooded seals and scavenge on carcasses of beluga whales, walruses, narwhals, and bowhead whales.  that have hauled out onto the ice. On occasion, polar bears kill beluga whales and young walruses.
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Polar Bears Predators. 1  Adult polar bears have no natural predators except other polar bears. 2  Cubs less than one year old sometimes are prey to wolves and other carnivores. 3  Newborn cubs may be cannibalized by malnourished mothers or adult male polar bears.
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- Killer whales can at times kill and eat polar bears, though this is rare. An orca is more likely to eat a seal, a sea lion, or an otter than a polar bear. Recently in Vancouver, Orcas have been seen killing other predators, ripping apart the sharks, and even taking down black hawks. History of Orc….
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Polar Bears Polar bears often stop to wash during feeding, using water nearby or rubbing in the snow. Polar bears don't always eat the entire kill. Carcass remains are scavenged by other bears, arctic foxes, and gulls.
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What eats a narwhal? Answer #1   Humans eat narwhals. Polar bears, sharks, killer whales and walruses eat them too!   Answer #2 by Shabootaqay   Orca whales are the narwhals' greatest nat … ural predators.Narwhals avoid the orcas by staying in the cracks between glaciers in the winter. Answer #3   Eskimos, killer whales, and polar bears.   polar bear Polar bears, orcas, and Greenland sharks have been known to hunt narwhals, but their biggest predator is man. Polar bears and Walruses.
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Polar Bear Facts and Adaptations - Ursus maritimus Polar Bear Facts and Adaptations - Ursus maritimus Polar bears live and breed entirely in the far north they live their whole lives above the northern tree line in the Arctic. They feed mainly on seals and are regarded more as a marine mammal than a land mammal as they hunt largely at the edge of sea-ice. polar bear facts Basics. Average Weight: adult males 350 to 700kg (770 - 1,540 lbs), adult females about half this weight.
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Basic Facts About Polar Bears Polar bears are the largest land carnivores in the world, rivaled only by the Kodiak brown bears of southwestern Alaska. Polar bears sit at the top of the food chain in the biologically rich Arctic. The most carnivorous of the bear species, polar bears feed primarily on the fat of ice-dependent seals. The remains of these seals provide food for many other Arctic wildlife species, giving polar bears a vital role in their ecosystem. Polar bears are marine mammals, and spend much of their time on Arctic sea ice.
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Black Bear Biology & Behavior They also scavenge meat from winter-killed animals, dig for rodents, and eat termites, ants, grubs and other insects. A bear’s diet changes seasonally. In spring, bears eat the tender emerging shoots of sedges, grasses, cow parsnip, leaf buds and skunk cabbage.
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What Do Polar Bears Eat? Polar Bear Diet Are you aware of what do polar bears eat? The polar bears are carnivorous by nature and the most flesh-eating animal in the bear family. Most of the polar bears predominantly eat ringed and bearded seals.For the reason that polar bears inhabits all throughout Arctic regions where millions of seals reside, they do not find it hard to prey such animals.olar bears also feed on reindeer, rodents, shellfish, crabs, wild foods, muskox, birds’ eggs, and other polar bears. Their diet is supplemented by some fruits and plants including berries, kelp and roots. Although rare, they also come into conflict with humans.
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Article:               Polar Bears Print A polar bear’s eyesight and sense of smell must be strong. Reportedly, a polar bear can smell a seal up to 20 miles away! Their teeth are different from other bears because their diet is different. For example, brown bears mostly eat vegetation, while polar bears mostly eat other animals – primarily the ringed seal.
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What Do Seals Eat? However, some seals specialize in only certain types of seafood; for instance, Southern Elephant seals eat mainly squid while walruses eat mainly mollusks. While seals are in constant danger from their natural enemies, sharks, killer whales, and, in the Arctic, polar bears, the greatest threat to them are humans.
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- they will also eat berries and eggs in the summer polar bears hunt by the power of scent and can smell their food at 20 miles 32 km away the stomach of an adult polar bear is so big that it can hold more than 150 pounds 68 kilos of food other predators of the tundra are arctic foxes and wolves
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GROLAR BEARS! They (hunters) usually stalk the polar bear using a dog, but this bear was so aggressive they couldn’t use a dog on them. It was too dangerous,” Robert Kuptana, who lives in the western Arctic hamlet of about 400 people on Victoria Island, told the Toronto Star Friday.
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Narwhal Narwhals are usually found in groups of 15 to 20, but herds of several thousand have been seen. Newborn narwhal calves are about 1.6 metres long. Calves are weaned after a year or more; females reach sexual maturity at about six years and males at eight. They feed on fish, squid, and shrimp. Predators of the narwhal include killer whales and, to a lesser extent, polar bears and walruses.
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What do bears eat? Red Deer.(Only if the bear lives in Siberia). Honey. They usually eat mammals in winter and early spring.They eat berries in spring,fall.They eat fish all the time.Well this is what they eat. Meat, fish, berries, and nuts. Bears are omnivorous and feed on what is available.
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- Sea Mammals Sea mammals were usually hunted during the winter when they were out on the ice. However, some sea mammals, like whales, were hunted in the open water. Some sea mammals - seals, walruses, beluga whales, narwhals. What they were hunted for: Seal: meat and skin. Walrus: ivory (tusks), and meat (mostly for the dogs) Beluga Whales: skin, food like muktuk (outer skin and blubber) Narwhal: ivory, meat for dogs. Land Animals Some land animals that were hunted - caribou, musk oxen, arctic fox, polar bear, arctic hare, arctic birds.
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- Unlike other bear species, polar bears are almost exclusively meat eaters (carnivorous). They mainly eat ringed seals, but also bearded seals. They also eat walruses, other species of seals and whale carcasses.
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What do killer whales eat in the Arctic? The Inuit reported that killer whales would 'eat whatever they can catch', mainly other marine mammals including seals (ringed, harp, bearded, and hooded) and whales (narwhal, beluga and bowhead). However there was no indication that Arctic killer whales ate fish.
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Polar bear diet Polar bears are the top predator in the Arctic marine ecosystem. Because the polar bear's body requires a diet based on large amounts of seal fat, they are the most carnivorous member of the bear family. Food can be hard to come by for polar bears for much of the year.
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Polar Bears Foraging and Eating. 1  Still hunting. Still hunting is the most common method of hunting year-round. 2  Stalking on land. Stalking is a hunting method used when seals haul out on sea ice. 3  Aquatic stalk. The aquatic stalk is a method also used to hunt seals hauled out on sea ice. 4  Stalking birth lairs. Stalking ringed seals at their birth lairs is a hunting method polar bears use in spring, when ringed seals give birth to their pups. Ringed seal birth lairs are caves built under snow drifts next to a hole in the ice. The snow drifts are on stable sea ice attached to land.
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America's 10 Toughest Animals How often they hunt and kill prey has a lot to do with geography. East coast bears seem mostly happy to eat grubs, bugs, and nuts, while west coast bears sometimes hunt young deer and definitely compete with lions and wolves for carcasses. Beware, ungulates of Labrador: Your black bears have a taste for caribou.
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Brown Bears Alaskan Brown Bear. Alaskan brown bears are the largest brown bears and require a very high caloric intake of food. Brown bears in Alaska can eat 80 to 90 pounds of food per day in the summer and fall, gaining around three to six pounds of fat each day, in order to store fat for the winter. Alaskan brown bears are opportunistic eaters and will eat almost anything. Their diet consists of berries, flowers, grasses, herbs, and roots. They get their protein from beavers, deer, caribou, salmon, carcasses, and other small mammals.
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Narwhal Narwhals are hunted by some northern indigenous cultures. This subsistence hunt provides food and materials for traditional needs. The skin of the narwhal, called maktaq by Canadian Inuit, is eaten both raw and boiled, and the meat is eaten by the people, or fed to sled dogs.
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- Brown bears are omnivorous, eating a wide variety of foods. They are most commonly known for salmon fishing, but also eat various types of vegetation such as berries, whitebark pine nuts, roots, and grasses. They are powerful hunters and will prey on animals such as moose and mountain sheep.
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WHAT EATS BEARS? But bears sometimes do eat other bears. Baby bears have the most to fear from other bears. Large male grizzly bears—also called brown bears—occasionally kill and eat grizzly bear cubs. And large male polar bears sometimes kill and eat small polar bears. In addition, sometimes grizzly bears kill black bears. A full-grown grizzly is much larger and stronger than even the largest black bear, so black bears always try to escape when they see a grizzly.
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- Polar bears are the largest carnivores and a unique symbol of the Arctic. Nineteen populations of polar bears are distributed in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia. The world wide population is estimated to be 22,000-25,000 bears. In Alaska, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) protects polar bears by prohibiting take of polar bears.