In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the polar bear population has grown from 850 in the mid-1980s to 2,100 today.And another interesting tidbit about polar bears floating on ice floes... that's how they travel!
Contrary to concern over a celebrated photograph of a bear and its cub floating on a tiny iceberg, the animals often travel in that way, he said.I hope this puts an end to using polar bears as propaganda tools."Bears will often hang out on glacier ice or large pieces of multi-year ice," [University of Alberta Professor Andrew Derocher] said.
