The summer months are truly the lazy days for the polar bear. It’s time for them to relax and wait for hunting season to begin all over again in November. Every summer the ice melts around the end of June or the beginning of July – this date keeps moving up ever so slightly as the years go by.
Walking hibernation is a term used for polar bears conserving their energy over the summer months while barely eating anything along the way. All of their energy is instead conserved so that when seal hunting starts, they are ready to pounce.
Although seals are the polar bears preferred meal, they do have snacks in the summer months, snacks we humans also enjoy! Berries and sea kelp are among the plant life the bears eat on the tundra as they await for the ice passage to open for them once again in late November.
Here in these pictures, you see a hungry guy getting berries all over his furry face as he noshes on delicious berries from the tundra.
Summer Bears
Tags: Churchill, Polar Bear
