Where do polar bears live?
Polar bears' natural habitat is the whole Arctic region. They prefer to spend their time on ice and in the water, hunting seals in leads (openings in the ice). Speaking about their citizenship, polar bears can be met in the territory of 5 countries: the USA, Canada, the Russian Federation, Greenland and Norway. Polar Bears dwell only in the Arctic areas around the North Pole; you can't meet one in Antarctica, which surrounds the South Pole. Actually, the word "arctic" comes from the Greek word for "bear", and Antarctic means "opposite of the Arctic".
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88 Comments
kingspawn
Now I want a Klondike. And polar bears don't drink Coca Cola, except at Christmas.
Terence Tomes
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at trader vics his hair was perfect....
Stevie G
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. The North Pole is a fixed point.
Jeff D Marquis
Terence Tomes I'd like to meet his tailor.
Paul Baldassarre
Terence Tomes you must have been in London
🅰️Antoinette🅱️
Africa - sadly in zoo's!
hazelphyllis
I clicked North pole and it said I clicked North and south - Ripped off again!
Albert
I can't believe people that they click both North and South. Think because of the curse of all the options are correct.
Amber Foster
They also live in the south pole just not as many.
Chrissie
Isabel Laing, polar bears can't get the wrappers off the penguins, because they don't have opposable thumbs.
Chrissie
Bob Alexander, but not any more food for them, so they are still endangered. Also their hunting season is becoming shorter, so they have even less opportunity to catch food. Many are starving pitifully.
Chrissie
kingspawn, UK polar bears drink Crests. It's frothy, man!
letissier
Their skin is black.
littledick
Michael Doherty, The question would have been much better written had they worded the area as the "north polar region". Locating them at a single point, viz., 90 degrees N., is a bit nuts.
littledick
Dan Drinkall, Ya, if that's their diet, it must be in zoos, certainly not their native Arctic habitat! I hope you were being facetious.
Elaine GIbson
I lived in Churchill Manitoba which is on the migration route for polar bears. I’ve seen pass right by the house! Jim Adams, polar bears are not just as content to hunt seals on land. They need the ice so the seals don’t see them about to pounce. That’s why climate change is endangering the food supply.
Rita Merrell Ashley
They are in the zoo in Rochester, NY.
earlepg
A lot of people must read the novel that Myrna read.
Jim Adams
As you have said yourself, polar bears don’t life at the North Pole, just near it. Plus they don’t prefer living on the ice, there just happens to be a lot of ice. Polar bears are just as contented to hunt seals on land as the ice.
Dena Barrett
Actually they don't live at the "north pole." They live throughout the arctic region including Alaska, and parts of Canada. That isn't the North Pole. There is no land mass at thr North Pole