Polar Bear Eats Seal in First Ever POV Video | National Geographic

as Porter’s scientists we don’t have
that many opportunities to see polar
bears out in their natural habitat but
we’re trying to bring in much more
fine-grain and in detail information
about how polar bears are using these
habitats you can see her swimming in the
water and at one point you see a seal
come into the picture which is certainly
exciting and she appears to be hunting
it’s pretty neat to get the opportunity
to see what these bears are seeing
underwater and what type of activity is
under there you put out these collars
this past spring we tried putting out to
different callers last year and they
designed these cameras specifically for
use on polar bears on the sea ice and so
our main objective so far was just to
make sure that they actually worked and
provided us useful data you know what
was probably most exciting for me is
just the fact that I was successful and
we can start to look into all these
different questions that we have and
start to get a much better understanding
of how these animals are using their
habitat but with declining sea ice
what’s not known is they’re able to
catch seals on the sea ice declines or
if they’re trying to conserve their
energy and minimize movement patterns
and so we want to get a better
understanding of how those barriers are
differing both behaviorally and
energetically and what the potential
implications of those might be