Student: Pero Pulji Date: June, 17th

2014
Study group: Eng-Ita
Course: Essay Writing

THE POLAR BEAR
White, north, or polar bear is an animal which with its size evokes the awe. It is the third
biggest land animal in the world, together with a brown bear and a grizzly bear. It is born in
the middle of the Arctic winter. The polar bear has to face with all extreme life conditions,
from the sea calf haunting to the moving from one iceberg to another. It has a very difficult
way of life.
The polar bear lives in areas around North Pole which are covered in snow and ice. It lives
in the south edge of Arctic frigid zone, on Grenland, on North America's coasts and it lives on
the north of Asia. Mostly it walks around icebergs looking for a food, but still it does not
cross the Arctic Circle. They especially like areas with opened water surface and large coasts.
Mainly those animals live a solitary life and they are active during the whole year. Those
giants are pretty skilled, so they are able to climb up on vertical icebergs and they can
overjump to four meters wide cracks int he ice. The polar bear does not hibernating. Only
females int he beginning of the August and September go to their lairs where they bring forth
to their young in December or January. They come out from the lairs int he middle of the
March . There are different types of the lairs. In Canada one lair serves for several
generations. Other lairs are made in eternal snow. Mostly, the dark lair consists of one room
and a hall long two meters, sometime six.
The most common way of nutrition of the polar bear is hunting, and their main pray is a
sea calf. Sea calfs move a lot, so the polar bear, if it could get to the food, has to search for
them. It waits them by the airhole or it stalks them cautiously while they lying on snow and
sunbathing. The most common prey for the polar bear are seal pups because it finds them
easily even under snow where their mothers bury them. The bear kills the seal with powerful
blow on the head. From the prey it uses only entrails, skin and fat. In the beginning of autmn
polar bears dwell on the coasts where they lokk for dead whales and walrusses. In the summer
their food is berries or some rodent.
The polar bear is high about one point five meters and long about two point five meters. Male
polar bear weights from one hundred to eight hundred kilos and female weights from one
hundred and fifty to three hundred kilos. With their yellow-white fur, they are perfectly
adjusted to their surrounding. Their fur is usually white, but in the summer it gets yellowish
pigment. Their hair does not have the pigment so that the sunlight could reach their skin,
which is black-colored. For extra protection from frostiness, they have fat layer thick about
ten centimeters. Polar bears are unusually strong and skilled. With their slightly bent legs and
with their feet covered in hair they can tumble great distance.
As we know, polar bears are magnificent, but dangerous animals. Today it is protected
specie. Hunting for polar bears is controlled. After World War II the population oft he polar
bear reduced to five thousands species. Today in the world there are about forty thousands
species. The huntingfor polar bears is not the only reason for their extinction. Because of the
global warming ice blocks are melting, so the polar bears cannot hunt for sea calfs. Because
oft hat, they have to reach for long distances looking for a food. There is bigger mortality of
little bears which cannot travel so long. They get too exhausted. The future of polar bears
depends on protection of Arctic.