blood on ice in the Arctic is not a sign
of death it’s an affirmation of life for
me it was life in the Arctic it was a
hunt so the polar bears are currently
here on the sea ice looking for seals
their favorite food now here you see the
female and the cub running as fast as
they possibly can now you rarely see
that and it’s the only thing that would
make a female run like that is being
threatened by an adult male normally the
male’s don’t chase them particularly the
females are very fast but when they’ve
got a little cub with them like that
they run more slowly and so it’s
possible for a male to to catch up
unfortunately the male was just gaining
on them the whole time the cub was
falling back and at one stage the mother
turned and tried to defend but the male
basically just ran straight past her and
in the end the cub dived into a little
pool and the males and straight after
the female actually jumped in there as
well but it was all too late the male
had the head the cub
the loss of a cub is very traumatic for
her but the important thing is for her
to save her own life and she quickly
changes from being a bit defensive of
her cub and trying to protect it you’re
realizing there’s no longer any hope and
that the best thing for her to do is
leave and get as far away as possible as
soon as possible
to witness something that obviously is
just normal in the life of a polar bear
but for all of us been seeing the first
time just off the chef I think was very
very emotional certainly was really hard
to look away I watched the entire scene
through my binoculars but it was painful
to see that I mean sure you understand
that this is life in the Arctic and this
is something we know about polar bear
biology but to see it is really dramatic
in the late summer like that you don’t
see very many seals up on the ice in
these open areas so the amount of
available food for a polar bear is is
quite reduced one of the only things
that’s left to eat is in fact Cubs of
various ages the footage itself is a is
quite rare but the event probably isn’t
it’s likely something that it will occur
more often as more and more ice melts
through climate change and food becomes
less readily available to polar bears on
the ice
of death it’s an affirmation of life for
me it was life in the Arctic it was a
hunt so the polar bears are currently
here on the sea ice looking for seals
their favorite food now here you see the
female and the cub running as fast as
they possibly can now you rarely see
that and it’s the only thing that would
make a female run like that is being
threatened by an adult male normally the
male’s don’t chase them particularly the
females are very fast but when they’ve
got a little cub with them like that
they run more slowly and so it’s
possible for a male to to catch up
unfortunately the male was just gaining
on them the whole time the cub was
falling back and at one stage the mother
turned and tried to defend but the male
basically just ran straight past her and
in the end the cub dived into a little
pool and the males and straight after
the female actually jumped in there as
well but it was all too late the male
had the head the cub
the loss of a cub is very traumatic for
her but the important thing is for her
to save her own life and she quickly
changes from being a bit defensive of
her cub and trying to protect it you’re
realizing there’s no longer any hope and
that the best thing for her to do is
leave and get as far away as possible as
soon as possible
to witness something that obviously is
just normal in the life of a polar bear
but for all of us been seeing the first
time just off the chef I think was very
very emotional certainly was really hard
to look away I watched the entire scene
through my binoculars but it was painful
to see that I mean sure you understand
that this is life in the Arctic and this
is something we know about polar bear
biology but to see it is really dramatic
in the late summer like that you don’t
see very many seals up on the ice in
these open areas so the amount of
available food for a polar bear is is
quite reduced one of the only things
that’s left to eat is in fact Cubs of
various ages the footage itself is a is
quite rare but the event probably isn’t
it’s likely something that it will occur
more often as more and more ice melts
through climate change and food becomes
less readily available to polar bears on
the ice
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