Prominent among the family Ursidae is a polar bear that is adapted to a highly specialized semi-aquatic lifestyle. Although it is a bear yet it is listed as a marine mammal precisely due to the fact that it spends 50% of its life on ice floes and is able to swim as far as 90 km (60 miles).
urchin. 1  a mischievous boy. 2  any small boy or youngster. 3  sea urchin. 4  either of two small rollers covered with card clothing used in conjunction with the cylinder in carding. 5  Chiefly British Dialect. a hedgehog. 6  Obsolete. an elf or mischievous sprite.
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept.There are more than 400 different kachinas in Hopi and Pueblo culture.The local pantheon of kachinas varies in each pueblo community; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, and many other concepts.n many ways the Kachina Cult and its ritual are the most important ceremonial observances in the Hopi religious calendar. Within Hopi religion, the kachinas are said to live on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona.