People Love Going On Churchill Manitoba Polar Bear Tours

 
 
 
By Ines Flores


The world is full of interesting experiences. The Churchill Manitoba Polar Bear Tours are there for everyone who is interested in these beautiful creatures, to be able to observe them in their natural habitat. Their scientific name is Ursus Maritimus and they are meat eaters. They are the world's largest land carnivores and are very cute when young.

The male bear can weigh anything from three hundred and fifty to seven hundred kilograms whereas the female of the species is about half that size. Their sister specie is the brown bear but because of the environment they live in, they have had to adapt. Their litter are born on land but spend most of their time in the frigid waters on the lookout for their favourite meal, the seal.

The bark of the tree is greyish brown in colour and is scaly and thin. The leaves have an outward show of needles and can be as long as fifteen millimetres. Each one is hard and on the upper sides has a bluish green colour while below is a paler green. They produce cones which are only about four centimetres long and are circular in shape with a dark purple in the beginning and later turning red brown when matured.

Constantine John Phipps who was born in 1744 and died in 1792 was an explorer in the Royal Navy. He was the first to describe these animals as a species and chose their name due to the habitat they lived in. They are found mainly in the Arctic Circle and adjacent lands as far as Newfoundland. This is a large island in Canada off the east coast of North America.

Methods of tracking these populations were implemented in the 1980s but are very expensive as the area that they inhabit is very large. Flying over the area and shooting darts into the bear and then tagging them seems to be the easiest way. It has been noted that over the last few years these animals seem to be gathering around human settlements giving the false impression that their population is increasing. There are about nineteen subpopulations of these bears and scientists say that out of these three are stable, one is increasing and eight are declining, where the rest are concerned there is not enough data to make an estimate.

The difference between the polar bear and its closest relative the brown bear is that the former has a more lengthened build and a longer nose and skull. Their ears and tails are smaller and the legs seem to be thicker. Their feet are much larger as they have to walk on ice and use them as paddles while swimming. The claws are also defined as being shorter and have a scooped underside to help with the digging.

Each paw has small dermal bumps which help with the traction on the ice and scientists have found that bears prefer to use their right paw for digging. This came about when they found injured bears and patterns suggested that their forelimbs seemed to be injured mainly on the right. The teeth are larger and sharper then the brown bear and there are about forty two in total.

Churchill Polar Bear Tours are situated in a town where there are only a few human settlements around. This is a popular place where many from all over the world come to observe these amazing creatures. The best time to visit is between October and November when the bears move from their summer habitat to their hunting territory.




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