Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...
Researchers were surprised when they spotted an additional cub with this mother polar bear. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill When female polar bear X33991 first emerged from her maternal den in ...
Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. Between 2011 and 2021, research colleagues and I ...