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Susan Janet Crockford is a Canadian zoologist known for her research and publications on polar bears. From 2004 to 2019 she was an adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria. [1] Crockford has gained attention for her blog posts on polar bear biology, in which she argues that polar bears are not threatened by climate change ...
The polar bear was given its common name by Thomas Pennant in A Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771). It was known as the "white bear" in Europe between the 13th and 18th centuries, as well as "ice bear", "sea bear" and "Greenland bear". The Norse referred to it as isbjørn ' ice bear ' and hvitebjørn ' white bear '. The bear is called nanook by the ...
A polar bear hunts on the sea ice of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada. New research has found the bears’ fur is the secret to why that ice does not attach to their fur (© Jenny E. Ross)
In order to avoid non bone materials being misinterpreted as bones, the following methods are applied to increase the efficiency of distinguishing bones and non bone materials. [7] A microscope can be used to examine whether there is an absence of graininess that will only appear on a bone's surface. [ 7 ]
Baculum of a dog's penis; the arrow shows the urethral sulcus, which is the groove in which the urethra lies. Fossil baculum of a bear from the Miocene. The baculum (pl.: bacula), also known as the penis bone, penile bone, os penis, os genitale, [1] or os priapi, [2] is a bone in the penis of many placental mammals.
Polar bears hunt primarily at the interface between ice, water, and air; they only rarely catch seals on land or in open water. [69] The polar bear's most common hunting method is still-hunting: [70] The bear locates a seal breathing hole using its sense of smell, and crouches nearby for a seal to appear. When the seal exhales, the bear smells ...
Called the "I Turn Polar Bears White" riddle, it presents a series of cryptic statements that don't seem to make sense at first glance. Take a closer look at this perplexing puzzle and see if you ...
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