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polar bears

All about polar bears by vital badjie

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 Introduction

Polar Bears are interesting animals in the world they are mammals that carnivores. The scientific name is of a polar bear is Ursus Mauritius . Polar bears normally live in the Arctic there habitat are in dens. The weight of a polar bear is 900-1600 the speed is about 3.4mph and length 7.25-8 feet.The looks like an animal who can survive in the snow they are almost the size of a mountain. They can swim like an animal above the water. The prey of the polar bear are seals,penguins and walrus there predator are humans. For the Walrus is too hard because walrus have thick skin in there body the polar bears prefer to take the small ones and is hard to find food in the Arctic. The behavior

of the polar bears are different lets say that polar bears can communicate through body language. When polar bears roar loudly or growls that means he will be angry. If polar bears rush that means when a male approaches a female with cubs she rushes toward him with her head lowered. Polar bears have an excellent sense of  smelling with the ability to detect seals nearly a mile away that is 1.6km.     

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