Polar Bears (ursus maritimus):the largest carnivores on land

1. Size: Polar Bears, when they stand on their hind legs, can be as tall as eleven feet. Their shoulder width can be as much as five feet across, and the males can weigh almost a thousand pounds (up to about 950-990 pounds), while the females can weigh up to about 750 pounds. They're big enough that you would want to stay away from them, especially since they're carnivores The polar bear is the largest member of the bear family.

2. What Do Polar Bears Eat? During the cold seasons, polar bears eat mostly the fat from seals, and carrion. Sometimes, in the late summer and early fall, polar bears will find whale carcuses to feed on. When they do, lots of other polar bears may come along too, sometimes as many as twenty polar bears. In the summer time polar bears, like other bears, will eat vegetation as well.

3. Where Do Polar Bears Live? Of course we all know that Polar Bears live where it's cold. But more specifically, they live at the souther edge of the arctic ice cap.

4. Miscellany Polar bears have a very good olfactory system and can smell carrion of whales, for example, from as far away as twenty miles. During the months of October and November, polars dig dens in the snow or tundra. Inside the den the temperature can be as much as forty degrees warmer than the outside temperature.