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Percy the Polar Bear (6/26)

This is also part of this series: All About Animals (26)

Subjects: Animal Behaviour, Animals, Evolution, Natural History, Nature

Grade Level: K-Gr3
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 25 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2004
Available in French: No

Percy is just 10 weeks old. He lives in the Canadian Arctic. He was born back in January, during the long cold Arctic winter. In the den it was up to 40 degrees warmer than outside, where the temperature drops to minus 60 degrees Celsius, winds gust at 100 miles an hour and it is dark for months on end. Polar bears are fully equipped for surviving the freezing conditions. They have wonderfully thick coats, a 10 cm thick layer of blubber (or fat) which acts like super-thick thermal underwear, and huge fur-covered paws which are like snowshoes. All this insulation is vital to protect them from the chill. They are hunters though, and those great paws have 20 cm long claws! Polar bears need to eat 2 kg of fat a day – that's the same as 8 packs of butter! Percy's mum provides him with lots of nourishing milk. Not surprisingly, it is therichest of all bears' milk, 15 times fattier than cows' milk. She forages over huge areas and may cover up to 25 km a day. Hunting is a tough business in this vast white landscape – only 1 in 20 hunts are successful. But if she can find a seal pup under the ice, it would be an excellent meal. It is 75% fat – perfect!

Links: http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/

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