How do polar bears survive the winter?

We should see more polar bears in TV documentaries. it is the largest land predator in the world. So do you know how polar bears spend the winter? Let's have a look!

First, how polar bears spend the winter

Polar bears hibernate in winter. Going out in the depths of winter is greatly reduced, and they can go almost without eating for a long time; at this time, they look for shelter from the wind and sleep on the ground, and their respiratory rate decreases and goes into local hibernation.

2. How does the North Star move

1. Polar bears are so good swimmers that they were once regarded as marine animals. Polar bears spend most of their lives (about 66.6%) in a state of "rest", such as sleeping, lying down, or waiting for prey. The remaining 29.1% of the time is walking or swimming on land or ice, 1.2% of the time is attacking prey, and the rest of the time is basically enjoying delicacy.

2. Sometimes the hard-caught prey of polar bears will attract spies of the same kind. Generally speaking, smaller polar bears are more likely to run away if they are unlucky to face those big guys. However, a mother who is feeding her young sometimes competes with the offending male bear in order to protect her cub or defend the family's hard-won rations. At the same time, polar bears are the only bears that take the initiative to attack humans, mostly at night.

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