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288 relations: ABC Islands bear, Age of Enlightenment, Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, Alaska, Alaska Zoo, Aldebaran, Algae, Ambush predator, American black bear, Amylase, An Inconvenient Truth, Apex predator, Aquiline nose, Archipelago, Arctic, Arctic Archipelago, Arctic fox, Arctic sea ice decline, Augustus II the Strong, Backscatter, Bacteria, Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Barter Island, Bear, Bearded seal, Beaufort Sea, Beluga whale, Berlin Zoo, Binky (polar bear), Bioaccumulation, Björn Kurtén, Blubber, Brown bear, Camouflage, Canine tooth, Cannibalism, Canter and gallop, Carl Hagenbeck, Carl Linnaeus, Carnivore, Carta marina, Catherine I of Russia, Central Park Zoo, Cetacea, Charismatic megafauna, Cheek teeth, Children's literature, Chukchi Sea, Churchill, Manitoba, ... Expand index (238 more) »
- Carnivorans of Asia
- Carnivorans of Europe
- Holarctic fauna
- Mammals described in 1774
- Mammals of the Arctic
- Marine mammals
- Pleistocene bears
- Polar bears
- Species endangered by climate change
- Ursus (mammal)
- Vulnerable biota of Asia
- Vulnerable biota of Europe
ABC Islands bear
The ABC Islands bear or Sitka brown bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) is a subspecies or population of brown bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is found on Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island in Alaska (colloquially known as the ABC Islands), and a part of the Alexander Archipelago. Polar bear and ABC Islands bear are mammals of the Arctic.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears
The Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears is a multilateral treaty signed in Oslo, November 15, 1973, by the five nations with the largest polar bear populations: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), the United States, and the Soviet Union. Polar bear and Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears are polar bears.
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Alaska Zoo
The Alaska Zoo is a zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, located on of the Anchorage Hillside.
Aldebaran
Aldebaran (lit) is a star located in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals that capture their prey via stealth, luring or by (typically instinctive) strategies utilizing an element of surprise.
See Polar bear and Ambush predator
American black bear
The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America. Polar bear and american black bear are Ursus (mammal).
See Polar bear and American black bear
Amylase
An amylase is an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of starch (Latin) into sugars.
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming.
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Apex predator
An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
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Aquiline nose
An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
See Polar bear and Archipelago
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic Archipelago
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) and Iceland (an independent country).
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Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. Polar bear and Arctic fox are Holarctic fauna and mammals of the Arctic.
Arctic sea ice decline
Sea ice in the Arctic region has declined in recent decades in area and volume due to climate change.
See Polar bear and Arctic sea ice decline
Augustus II the Strong
Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733.
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Backscatter
In physics, backscatter (or backscattering) is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Avannaata Imaa; Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
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Barter Island
Barter Island is an island located on the Arctic coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, east of Arey Island in the Beaufort Sea.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
Bearded seal
The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean. Polar bear and bearded seal are Holarctic fauna.
See Polar bear and Bearded seal
Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Beluga whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. Polar bear and beluga whale are Holarctic fauna.
See Polar bear and Beluga whale
Berlin Zoo
The Berlin Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany.
Binky (polar bear)
Binky (1975 – July 20, 1995) was a captive male polar bear who lived at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage.
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Bioaccumulation
Bioaccumulation is the gradual accumulation of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals, in an organism.
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Björn Kurtén
Björn Olof Lennartson Kurtén (19 November 1924 – 28 December 1988) was a Finnish vertebrate paleontologist, belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of his country.
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Blubber
Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds, penguins, and sirenians. Polar bear and Blubber are marine mammals.
Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Polar bear and brown bear are Holarctic fauna, mammals of the Arctic, Pleistocene bears and Ursus (mammal).
Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
Canine tooth
In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or vampire fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth.
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Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.
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Canter and gallop
The canter and gallop are variations on the fastest gait that can be performed by a horse or other equine.
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Carl Hagenbeck
Carl Hagenbeck (10 June 1844 – 14 April 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Carnivore
A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.
Carta marina
(Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; commonly abbreviated) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus and initially published in 1539.
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Catherine I of Russia
Catherine I Alekseevna Mikhailova (Ekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya;,; –) was the second wife and Empress consort of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as Empress of Russia, ruling from 1725 until her death in 1727.
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Central Park Zoo
The Central Park Zoo is a zoo located at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Charismatic megafauna
Charismatic megafauna are animal species that are large—in the relevant category that they represent—with symbolic value or widespread popular appeal, and are often used by environmental activists to gain public support for environmentalist goals.
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Cheek teeth
Cheek teeth or postcanines comprise the molar and premolar teeth in mammals.
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Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.
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Chukchi Sea
The Chukchi Sea (Chukótskoye móre), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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Churchill, Manitoba
Churchill is an Arctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly from the Manitoba–Nunavut border.
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Circadian rhythm
A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.
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Circulatory system
The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.
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Circumpolar peoples
Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various indigenous peoples of the Arctic region.
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Circus
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
Circus Krone
Circus Krone, based in Munich, is one of the largest circuses in Europe and one of the few in Western Europe (along with Cirque d'hiver de Paris, Cirque d'hiver d'Amiens and Cirque Royal in Brussels) to also occupy a building.
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CITES
CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Coat of arms of Greenland
The coat of arms of Greenland is a blue shield charged with an upright polar bear.
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Coca-Cola polar bears
The Coca-Cola polar bears are fictional polar bears used as the mascots for the Coca-Cola Company.
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Cochrane, Ontario
Cochrane is a town in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC, French: Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada, COSEPAC) is an independent committee of wildlife experts and scientists whose "raison d'être is to identify species at risk" in Canada.
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Cone cell
Cone cells or cones are photoreceptor cells in the retinas of vertebrates' eyes.
Consciousness raising
Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
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Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (30 May 1744 – 10 October 1792) was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Copy number variation
Copy number variation (CNV) is a phenomenon in which sections of the genome are repeated and the number of repeats in the genome varies between individuals.
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Davis Strait
The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea.
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Detroit Zoo
The Detroit Zoo is a zoo located in the cities of Huntington Woods and Royal Oak in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Diastema
A diastema (diastemata, from Greek διάστημα, 'space') is a space or gap between two teeth.
Dichromacy
Dichromacy (from Greek di, meaning "two" and chromo, meaning "color") is the state of having two types of functioning photoreceptors, called cone cells, in the eyes.
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
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Dorset culture
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from to between and, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic.
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" (Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne) is a Norwegian fairy-tale.
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East Siberian Sea
The East Siberian Sea (r; Илин Сибиирдээҕи байҕал, İlin Sibiirdeeği bayğal) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean.
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Ecological pyramid
An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level in an ecosystem.
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Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags.
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Embryonic diapause
Embryonic diapause (delayed implantation in mammals) is a reproductive strategy used by a number of animal species across different biological classes.
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
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Estrous cycle
The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.
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Exeter Exchange
The Exeter Exchange (signed and popularly known as Exeter Change) was a building on the north side of the Strand in London, with an arcade extending partway across the carriageway.
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Fasting
Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking.
Fitness (biology)
Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.
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Fluoxetine
Fluoxetine, sold under the brand name Prozac, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.
Forward scatter
Forward scattering is the deflection of waves by small angles so that they continue to move in close to the same direction as before the scattering.
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Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula.
François-Auguste Biard
François-Auguste Biard, born François Thérèse Biard (29 June 1799 – 20 June 1882) was a French painter, known for his adventurous travels and the works depicting his experiences.
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Frank C. Bostock
Francis Charles Bostock (1866–1912) was an English entrepreneur and animal trainer, who represented the touring section of the Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie.
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Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I (Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg-Prussia).
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Frostbite
Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas.
Fur
Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals.
Gene cluster
A gene family is a set of homologous genes within one organism.
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Gene flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.
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Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).
Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
Grizzly bear
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America. Polar bear and grizzly bear are carnivorans of North America, ESA threatened species and mammals of the Arctic.
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Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
A grizzly-polar-bear-hybrid (also named grolar bear, pizzly bear, zebra bear, grizzlar, or nanulak) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. Polar bear and Grizzly–polar bear hybrid are polar bears.
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Growling
Growling is a low, guttural vocalization produced by animals as an aggressive warning but can also be found in other contexts such as playful behaviors or mating.
Guard hair
Guard hair or overhair is the outer layer of hair of most mammals, which overlay the fur.
Gulf of Boothia
The Gulf of Boothia is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada.
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Gus (bear)
Gus (1985–August 27, 2013) was a polar bear and icon of the Central Park Zoo in New York City.
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Harbor seal
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. Polar bear and harbor seal are Holarctic fauna.
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Harp seal
The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean.
Hauksbók
Hauksbók ('Book of Haukr') is a 14th century Icelandic manuscript created by Haukr Erlendsson.
Hauling-out
Hauling out is a behaviour associated with pinnipeds (true seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses) temporarily leaving the water.
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Hellabrunn Zoo
Hellabrunn Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) is a 40 hectare (99 acre) zoological garden in the Bavarian capital of Munich.
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Henry Ellis (governor)
Henry Ellis (August 29, 1721 – January 21, 1806) was an Irish explorer, author and slave trader who served as the governor of the colonies of Georgia and Nova Scotia.
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Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.
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Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
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Hippodrome, London
The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, London.
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His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
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Histoire Naturelle
The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (italic) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues, led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède.
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Hoarding (animal behavior)
Hoarding or caching in animal behavior is the storage of food in locations hidden from the sight of both conspecifics (animals of the same or closely related species) and members of other species.
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Hooded seal
The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.
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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
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Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.
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Hyades (star cluster)
The Hyades (Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Caldwell 41, Collinder 50, or Melotte 25) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Hypercarnivore
A hypercarnivore is an animal which has a diet that is more than 70% meat, either via active predation or by scavenging.
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Ice seal
Ice seal, or (in the Southern Hemisphere) pack-ice seal is a general term applied to any one of a number of pinniped species of the family Phocidae whose life cycle is completed largely on or about the sea ice of the Earth's polar regions.
Igloo (1932 film)
Igloo is a 1932 American pre-Code documentary film released by Universal Studios.
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Incisor
Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.
Induced ovulation (animals)
Induced ovulation occurs in some animal species that do not ovulate cyclically or spontaneously.
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Infanticide (zoology)
In animals, infanticide involves the intentional killing of young offspring by a mature animal of the same species.
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International Polar Bear Day
International Polar Bear Day is an annual event celebrated every February 27, to coincide with the time period when polar bear mothers and cubs are sleeping in their dens, and to raise awareness about the conservation status of the polar bear.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Inuit astronomy
Inuit astronomy is centered around the Qilak, the Inuit name for the celestial sphere and the home for souls of departed people.
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Inuit culture
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).
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Inuit religion
Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland.
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IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
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Ivory carving
Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, generally by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually.
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Jack Benny
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film.
James Bay
James Bay (Baie James; dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada.
James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
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Jonas Poole
Jonas Poole (bap. 1566 – 1612) was an early 17th-century English explorer and sealer, and was significant in the history of whaling.
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Kaktovik, Alaska
Kaktovik (Qaaktuġvik) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States.
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Kalaallit
Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit ethnic group, being the largest group in Greenland, concentrated in the west.
Kane Basin
Kane Basin (Kane Bassin; Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island.
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.
Keratin
Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.
Knut (polar bear)
Knut (5 December 2006 – 19 March 2011) was an orphaned polar bear born in captivity at the Berlin Zoological Garden.
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Kodiak bear
The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), also known as the Kodiak brown bear, sometimes the Alaskan brown bear, inhabits the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska. Polar bear and Kodiak bear are carnivorans of North America.
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Konungs skuggsjá
Konungs skuggsjá (Old Norse for "King's mirror"; Speculum regale, modern Kongsspegelen (Nynorsk) or Kongespeilet (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian didactic text in Old Norse from around 1250, an example of speculum literature that deals with politics and morality.
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Kotzebue Sound
Kotzebue Sound is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in the western region of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Lactation
Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young.
Lancaster Sound
Lancaster Sound is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Laptev Sea
The Laptev Sea (r; translit) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Lead (sea ice)
A lead (rhymes with "reed") is a large fracture within an expanse of sea ice, defining a linear area of open water that can be used for navigation purposes.
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List of individual bears
The following is a list of individual bears which garnered national or worldwide attention.
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M'Clintock Channel
M'Clintock Channel (also spelled McClintock Channel) is located in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
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Man Proposes, God Disposes
Man Proposes, God Disposes is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Edwin Landseer.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.
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Marine ecosystem
Marine ecosystems are the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems and exist in waters that have a high salt content.
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Marine invertebrates
Marine invertebrates are the invertebrates that live in marine habitats.
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Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence. Polar bear and marine mammal are marine mammals.
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Marionette
A marionette (marionnette) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations.
Maternity den
In the animal kingdom, a maternity den is a lair where a mother gives birth and nurtures her young when they are in a vulnerable life stage.
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
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Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.
Menagerie
A menagerie is a collection of captive animals, frequently exotic, kept for display; or the place where such a collection is kept, a precursor to the modern zoo or zoological garden.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Midnight sun
Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
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Monogamy
Monogamy is a relationship of two individuals in which they form an exclusive intimate partnership.
Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Moulting
In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
Narwhal
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a species of toothed whale native to the Arctic. Polar bear and narwhal are Holarctic fauna.
Nasal concha
In anatomy, a nasal concha (conchae;; Latin for 'shell'), also called a nasal turbinate or turbinal, is a long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various other animals.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Netsilik
The Netsilik (Netsilingmiut) are Inuit who live predominantly in Kugaaruk and Gjoa Haven, and somewhat in Taloyoak of the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, and, to a smaller extent in the north Qikiqtaaluk Region, in Canada.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.
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Nihon Shoki
The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.
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Nissan
is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Nordic folklore
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
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Norsemen
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
Norwegian Bay
Norwegian Bay (Baie Norvégienne) is an Arctic Ocean waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
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Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (also,; Но́вая Земля́) is an archipelago in northern Russia.
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Nuliajuk
Nuliajuk is a goddess of the Netsilik Inuit.
Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
Olfactory receptor
Olfactory receptors (ORs), also known as odorant receptors, are chemoreceptors expressed in the cell membranes of olfactory receptor neurons and are responsible for the detection of odorants (for example, compounds that have an odor) which give rise to the sense of smell.
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Olfactory system
The olfactory system or sense of smell is the sensory system used for smelling (olfaction).
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Orion's Belt
Orion's Belt is an asterism in the constellation of Orion.
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Pagophily
Pagophily or pagophilia is the preference or dependence on water ice for some or all activities and functions.
Panorama
A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pegtymel
The Pegtymel (Пегтымель) is a river in Far East Siberia, Russia.
Permafrost
Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.
Persistent organic pollutant
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.
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Petroglyph
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
Philadelphia Zoo
The Philadelphia Zoo, located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, is the first true zoo in the United States.
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Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer.
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Photokeratitis
Photokeratitis or ultraviolet keratitis is a painful eye condition caused by exposure of insufficiently protected eyes to the ultraviolet (UV) rays from either natural (e.g. intense direct or reflected sunlight) or artificial (e.g. the electric arc during welding) sources.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
Pleiades
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, reflects an observed pattern formed by those stars, in an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Polar bear jail
The polar bear jail (officially known as the Polar Bear Holding Facility) is a special building in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada where polar bears that are considered troublesome or dangerous are isolated until they can be relocated.
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Polar Bear Shores
Polar Bear Shores is a polar bear exhibit at the Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast, Australia. Polar bear and polar Bear Shores are polar bears.
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Polar Bears International
Polar Bears International (PBI) is a non-profit polar bear conservation organization.
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Polar night
Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours.
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Polychlorinated biphenyl
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.
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Polygyny in animals
Polygyny (from Neo-Greek) is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a few males.
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Polynya
A polynya is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice.
Precociality and altriciality
Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.
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Premolar
The premolars, also called premolar teeth, or bicuspids, are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth.
Pressure ridge (ice)
A pressure ridge, when consisting of ice in an oceanic or coastal environment, is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes.
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Pribilof Islands
The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Amiq, Ostrova Pribylova) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.
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Prins Karls Forland
Prins Karls Forland or Forlandet, occasionally anglicized as Prince Charles Foreland, is an island off the west coast of Oscar II Land on Spitsbergen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway.
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Productivity (ecology)
In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface) per unit of time, such as grams per square metre per day (g m−2 d−1).
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Prusten
Prusten is a form of communicative behaviour exhibited by some members of the family Felidae.
Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Queen Elizabeth Islands
The Queen Elizabeth Islands (Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth) are the northernmost cluster of islands in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Northern Canada.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. Polar bear and reindeer are Holarctic fauna and mammals of the Arctic.
Reniculate kidney
The reniculate kidney is a multilobed kidney found in marine and aquatic mammals such as pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) and cetaceans (dolphins and whales) but absent in terrestrial mammals except bears.
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Ribbon seal
The ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata) is a medium-sized pinniped from the true seal family (Phocidae). Polar bear and ribbon seal are Holarctic fauna.
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Ringed seal
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Polar bear and ringed seal are Holarctic fauna.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Roar (vocalization)
A roar is a type of animal vocalization that is loud, deep and resonating.
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Rock art
In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces.
Rod cell
Rod cells are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in lower light better than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells.
Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.
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Scandinavian literature
Scandinavian literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe.
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Sea ice
Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.
Sea World (Australia)
Sea World is a marine mammal park, oceanarium, and theme park located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
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Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).
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Speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.
Spirit bear
The spirit bear, sometimes called the kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada.
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Spotted seal
The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a member of the family Phocidae, and is considered a "true seal". Polar bear and spotted seal are ESA threatened species and Holarctic fauna.
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St. Matthew Island
St.
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Starch
Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.
Stereotypy (non-human)
In animal behaviour, stereotypy, stereotypic or stereotyped behaviour has several meanings, leading to ambiguity in the scientific literature.
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Striated muscle tissue
Striated muscle tissue is a muscle tissue that features repeating functional units called sarcomeres.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Teddy bear
A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.
The Big Show (1961 film)
The Big Show is a 1961 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope drama film directed by James B. Clark, starring Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson.
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The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series.
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The Little Polar Bear
The Little Polar Bear (in Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer.
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The Tale of Auðun of the West Fjords
Auðunar þáttr vestfirska (Old Norse:; Modern Auðunar þáttur vestfirska; The Tale of Auðun of the West Fjords) is a short tale (or þáttr) preserved in three distinct versions as part of the saga of Harald III of Norway (reigned 1047–66, a.k.a. Haraldr inn harðráði Sigurðsson), as the saga is told in the manuscripts Morkinskinna, Flateyjarbók, and several others.
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The White Dawn
The White Dawn is a 1974 Canadian-American drama film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett Jr. It portrays the conflict between aboriginal peoples' traditional way of life and Europeans' eagerness to take advantage of them.
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Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.
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Tierpark Hagenbeck
The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo in Stellingen, Hamburg, Germany.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Torngarsuk
In the Inuit religion, Torngarsuk (or Torngasak) is a sea, death and underworld god, one of the more important deities in the Inuit pantheon.
Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.
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Transcortin
Transcortin, also known as corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) or serpin A6, is a protein produced in the liver in animals.
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Trichinella
Trichinella is the genus of parasitic roundworms of the phylum Nematoda that cause trichinosis (also known as trichinellosis).
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Trot
The trot is a two-beat diagonal horse gait where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat.
Tutelary deity
A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
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Underworld
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living.
Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Ursinae
Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae (bears) named by Swainson (1835).
Ursus maritimus tyrannus
Ursus maritimus tyrannus is a controversial extinct subspecies of polar bear. Polar bear and Ursus maritimus tyrannus are Pleistocene bears and polar bears.
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Viscount Melville Sound
Viscount Melville Sound, formerly Melville Sound, is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, hence an essential nutrient.
Vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
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Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. Polar bear and walrus are Holarctic fauna and marine mammals.
Water bird
A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.
White-Bear-King-Valemon
White-Bear-King-Valemon (Kvitebjørn kong Valemon) is a Norwegian fairy-tale.
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Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Polar bear and wolf are Holarctic fauna.
World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Zhokhov Island
Zhokhov Island (r; translit) is an island in the East Siberian Sea, situated 128 km north east of Novaya Sibir Island, the easternmost of the New Siberian Islands.
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Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole
The 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole was a British Royal Navy expedition suggested by the Royal Society and especially its vice president Daines Barrington, who believed in an ice-free Open Polar Sea.
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2011 Svalbard polar bear attack
The 2011 Svalbard polar bear attack was an attack by a presumed starving polar bear on a group of university students and their guides. Polar bear and 2011 Svalbard polar bear attack are polar bears.
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2019 mass invasion of Russian polar bears
In February 2019, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean experienced a mass invasion of polar bears. Polar bear and 2019 mass invasion of Russian polar bears are polar bears.
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See also
Carnivorans of Asia
- Arabian wolf
- Asiatic black bears
- Banded palm civet
- Binturong
- Dhole
- East Siberian brown bear
- Eurasian brown bear
- Eurasian otter
- Eurasian wolf
- Ezo red fox
- Fennec fox
- Gobi bear
- Golden jackal
- Hill fox
- Himalayan black bear
- Himalayan brown bear
- Himalayan wolf
- Japanese otter
- Kamchatka brown bear
- Large-spotted civet
- Least weasel
- Marbled polecat
- Otter civet
- Owston's palm civet
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Red fox
- Ruddy mongoose
- Sea otter
- Silver fox (animal)
- Small Indian civet
- Smooth-coated otter
- Spotted linsang
- Stoat
- Striped hyena
- Sulawesi palm civet
- Syrian brown bear
- Tibetan blue bear
- Tien Shan dhole
- Ussuri brown bear
- Weasel
Carnivorans of Europe
- Balkan lynx
- Beech marten
- Eurasian brown bear
- Eurasian otter
- Eurasian wolf
- European jackal
- European mink
- European polecat
- Golden jackal
- Iberian wolf
- Kellas cat
- Least weasel
- Marbled polecat
- Marsican brown bear
- Marten
- Otter
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Red fox
- Silver fox (animal)
- Stoat
- Striped hyena
- Syrian brown bear
- Tundra wolf
- Weasel
- Wolverine
Holarctic fauna
- Acronicta
- Arctic fox
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Arctic lamprey
- Bearded seal
- Beaver
- Beluga whale
- Bison
- Bowhead whale
- Brown bear
- Burbot
- Elk
- Freshwater whitefish
- Grey seal
- Harbor seal
- Harbour porpoise
- Homotherium
- Isotoma viridis
- Least weasel
- Lynx
- Moose
- Muskox
- Narwhal
- Ninespine stickleback
- Northern fur seal
- Northern pike
- Northern red-backed vole
- Opheltes glaucopterus
- Polar bear
- Rainbow trout
- Red fox
- Reindeer
- Ribbon seal
- Ringed seal
- Salmon
- Sea otter
- Somatochlora sahlbergi
- Spotted seal
- Steller sea lion
- Stoat
- Thymallus
- Trout
- Tundra vole
- Walrus
- Wolf
- Wolverine
- Woolly mammoth
- Yukagir mammoth
Mammals described in 1774
- Angolan talapoin
- Blond capuchin
- Common noctule
- Common pipistrelle
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Kinkajou
- Lesser sac-winged bat
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Mona monkey
- Polar bear
- Roloway monkey
- Schreber's yellow bat
- Serotine bat
- Western barbastelle
Mammals of the Arctic
- ABC Islands bear
- Alaska Peninsula brown bear
- Alaska moose
- Alaskan tundra wolf
- Arctic fox
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Arctic hare
- Arctic lemming
- Arctic shrew
- Arctic wolf
- Barren ground shrew
- Barren-ground caribou
- Beringian lemming
- Brown bear
- Canadian lemming
- Caribou herds and populations in Canada
- Dolphin-Union caribou
- Grizzly bear
- Least weasel
- List of mammals of Nunavut
- Muskox
- Muskrat
- Nelson's collared lemming
- Northern collared lemming
- Northern red-backed vole
- Peary caribou
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Red fox
- Reindeer
- Sable
- Singing vole
- Taiga vole
- Tundra vole
- Tundra wolf
- Ungava brown bear
- Ungava collared lemming
- West Siberian lemming
- Wolverine
Marine mammals
- Blubber
- Cetaceans
- Important marine mammal area
- Instituto Via Delphi
- List of marine mammal species
- List of marine mammals of Australia
- Marine Mammal Laboratory
- Marine mammal
- Marine mammal observer
- Marine mammal training
- Marine mammals as food
- Marine otter
- Myotis vivesi
- North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
- Northern elephant seal
- Pinnipeds
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Sea mink
- Sea otter
- Sirenians
- Super weaner
- United States Marine Mammal Program
- United States Navy Marine Mammal Program
- Walrus
Pleistocene bears
- Agriotherium
- Arctodus
- Arctotherium
- Brown bear
- Cave bear
- Huracan (mammal)
- Plionarctos
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Spectacled bear
- Steppe brown bear
- Tremarctos floridanus
- Ursus deningeri
- Ursus dolinensis
- Ursus etruscus
- Ursus ingressus
- Ursus maritimus tyrannus
- Ursus rossicus
Polar bears
- 2011 Svalbard polar bear attack
- 2019 mass invasion of Russian polar bears
- Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears
- Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
- Maelstrom (ride)
- Nanook
- Polar Bear Shores
- Polar bear
- Polar bear conservation
- Ursus maritimus tyrannus
Species endangered by climate change
- Bog turtle
- Bramble Cay melomys
- Lemuroid ringtail possum
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Scottnema lindsayae
- Torreya taxifolia
Ursus (mammal)
- American black bear
- Asian black bear
- Black bears
- Brown bear
- Brown bears
- Cave bear
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Ursus (mammal)
- Ursus deningeri
- Ursus dolinensis
- Ursus etruscus
- Ursus ingressus
- Ursus minimus
- Ursus rossicus
Vulnerable biota of Asia
Vulnerable biota of Europe
- Alosa macedonica
- Balkan snow vole
- Bigeye thresher
- Bombus alpinus
- Broom hare
- Corsican hare
- Cretan shrew
- Dusky shark
- Ellisella paraplexauroides
- European ground squirrel
- Iberian lynx
- Leatherback sea turtle
- Long-fingered bat
- Madeira pipistrelle
- Marbled polecat
- Mehely's horseshoe bat
- Nordmann's birch mouse
- Polar bear
- Polar bears
- Pontic shad
- Pyrenean desman
- Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse
- Sardinella maderensis
- School shark
- Semisalsa stagnorum
- Smalltooth sand tiger
- Smooth hammerhead
- Southwestern water vole
- Starlet sea anemone
References
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