See a desperately hungry polar bear hunting for fish due to scarcity of food in the Russian Arctic
With food in short supply, a polar bear hunting for fish in the Russian Arctic.
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Transcript
It’s late summer on Russia’s northern coasts. With the rising global temperatures, winter is coming later to the arctic each year. Polar bears are waiting anxiously for the sea ice to form. Only then can they go out to hunt for seals, their main source of food.
The large hunters are desperately hungry. They’ve hardly eaten all summer. There’s little food for them on land and winter still seems a long way off. The young bear has detected a movement in the water, a fish stranded in the shallow lagoon. Polar bears are not known to catch fish, and the young bear is clearly not experienced. But desperate times call for desperate measures. If the fish is to his liking, the young bear may well come back for more.
The large hunters are desperately hungry. They’ve hardly eaten all summer. There’s little food for them on land and winter still seems a long way off. The young bear has detected a movement in the water, a fish stranded in the shallow lagoon. Polar bears are not known to catch fish, and the young bear is clearly not experienced. But desperate times call for desperate measures. If the fish is to his liking, the young bear may well come back for more.
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