Polar Bear

The Polar Bear (Ursus martimus) is one of the largest land carnivores on the entire planet, with adult males weighing up to 1,700lbs (771kg). They are perfectly adapted for a cold weather environment, sporting think fur everywhere, including on their feet. The fur is white to camouflage them in the snow, but underneath their skin is black, which allows them to soak up heat more quickly. They are also excellent swimmers.

Though they are technically omnivores, Polar Bears feed mostly on other animals. Seals make up a large part of their diet, and are hunted by waiting on the ice near breathing holes where Seals surface for air. They do also feed on carrion, fish, birds, and some vegetation. Some bears will travel thousands of miles in a year while tracking food.

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Polar Bears "hibernate", but not in the true sense of the word. Their metabolism slows, but they do not go through a full drop rate in heart rate or body temperature. Female bears dig dens in snow and give birth in these dens, typically to two cubs. These cubs will remain with their mother for two years or more, learning how to hunt and survive. Males have nothing to do with the raising of cubs, and will even kill cubs.

Polar Bears are listed as Vulnerable, and their numbers are threatened by habitat loss and climate change. Warming in the Arctic and loss of pack ice has limited their ability to hunt, placing the population on a decline.

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5 Animals who Got nickname "Devil"

Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) 

Animals of strange and unique prickly, quick-like dragon. Living in the desert in Australia. Length 20 cm, and can live to 20 years. To defend himself he can be camouflaged. This little dragon generally live in the desert. Thorns on his body is to protect themselves from other predators. Another uniqueness of this animal is that it ate whatever fell into his body. One of the favorite is the ant. He can eat thousands of ants in one day. 





Tasmanian Devil 

It belongs to the group Carnivorous marsupials that live in dry forest. The Tasmanian was also entered in a breed of dog. Although diminutive, but this animal has juat jaw and pointy teeth and powerful that it made him unable to eat the bones hard, or hard objects. Tasmanian including predatory animals and have longlongan horrible. He sometimes hunt live animals, but his favorite is to eat carrion. That is, she likes to eat meat from animals found dead. As common symptoms of an unhealthy dog ​​(suffering from rabies and other diseases), the Tasmanian also have the same symptoms, if he put his tail in the two hind legs, or a thin feathered tail, then indicate that she suffered from disease 





Sand Devil 

His name is weird Sand Devil (Satan sand), other names are the angel shark. This fish species from the family Squatinidae shark found in the subtropical tip of the continent and the upper slopes soles western Atlantic. For some reason these fish have a unique name, "sand devil 'also' angel shark '. To be sure the two names that do not relate to the habits of fishes generally ini.Berbeda of shark that we know, angel sharks are not aggressive, he also did not attack, unless disturbed. Bites can cause severe injuries, because his teeth are very pointed. The scientific name of this sand shark demon is Squatina dumeril. Ikan has some fangs in its mouth. The food is small fish, crustaceans and shelled two animals. 





Hickory Horned Devil 

Such as the Thorny Devil, Hickory Horned Devil horns even had his body spiked. This is to protect themselves from attack by predators. This beast compatriots caterpillar plants living in North Ametika. Horn and the spikes on his body looks creepy and dangerous, when in fact not. Although the sinister-looking, with caterpillar caterpillar Hickory other plants. Red spikes that led to long black can still grow up to 15 cm. Prior to breed, this caterpillar will change the color of turquoise and breed in the soil that had been prepared. 





African Devil Flower Mantis 

This is one of the nation's largest species of grasshoppers. Bionomically known as Idolomantis diabolica, most bersar grasshoppers from East Africa. Of the estimated size of the L2 takes 1 year to reach the size of 25-30C. This is also called sebagai'Raja Mantis'. See the picture, this is the 'biggest mantis', looks beautiful, and beautiful. But it also is increasingly rare. These rare animals consume attack attack like moths, flies, butterflies, beetles, but he did not like the insects that live on land such as crickets, etc.. 

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Young Bears

Remember the story of the Grizzly Mother who was executed for assaulting three campers in Yellowstone National Park?  Remember also in that story her cubs were sent to “a zoo as soon as possible”?  News update: the young bears are now in the Montana Zoo and are reported to be “making their debut.”

An L.A. Times local column reports that the cubs “will never escape their savage backstory, but three young bears whose mother led them on a rampage through a Montana campground embarked on a new career Friday: fuzzy zoo attractions.”  Thank you, Montana Zoo, for subduing the savage beasts within the young bears (or rather the savage beasts that they are) and guaranteeing us that they will never have conflict with people again because they’re never getting out of there alive, or so ZooMontana senior keeper Krystal Whethem says.

Even as I type this short commentary, the bears are apparently relaxing more and more to human presence.  But are they?  Can I trust this article, seeing as there’s no hint of the bears’ perspectives beyond the zoo executives?  I don’t want to assume the worse in imagining their lives as “any other confined wild creature,” but the article reassures me that I should.  As a person who hungers for animal news stories from animals’ true perspectives, filtered through sincere professionals and writers who aren’t politically or economically compromised, can you blame me for being skeptical and even upset about the current and future lives of these bears?

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