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Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

The results are only somewhat curious, because Chukchi Sea polar bear populations appear relatively healthy compared with other populations, given the wide area and abundance of seals to eat.

Polar bear with a cubs in the tundra (Alamy/PA) She added: “Historically, this has been okay, because the bears could eat ...

Rode notes that in recent years, ringed seals — one of the polar bears ... of pathogens affects the whole food chain. Some polar bears are eaten by people through subsistence hunting, Rode ...

A polar bear walks on ice after pulling iself out of the Chukchi Sea on June 14, 2014. Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic ...

Still, the variability based on diet suggests the bears are picking up most of the pathogens from their prey, which consists of seals ... living in the Arctic eat polar bears, and some of the ...

Direct interactions, such as an increase in prey resulting in an increase in the predator population that eats them ... ringed seals, beluga whales and polar bears. Increased colonization by ...