What amount of fat per day do polar bears have to eat to survive?
A polar bear's stomach can hold an estimated 15% to 20% of its body weight. A polar bear generally eats this much only when its energy demands are high. A bear can assimilate 84% of the protein and 97% of the fat it eats.
Polar bears need an average of 2 kg (4.4 lb.) of fat per day to obtain enough energy to survive.
A ringed seal weighing 55 kg (121 lb.) could provide up to eight days of energy for a polar bear. Hibernating polar bears do not eat.
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What are your thoughts on this subject?
6 Comments
Stevie G
Three silly options made the correct answer stand out.
Raymond Cardona
Those other amounts were silly
Bonnie
David Roy
Pat Salloum, it's pretty easy to prove it isn't any of the other three answer options.
Pat Salloum
Another answer which is hard to prove.
John W Shreve
Darlene Davidson, Come now. I was just asking our landscaper how much fat a polar bear eats in a day.
MRogers
Darlene Davidson, it’s not absurd to a polar bear.