We continue to publish Ivan Mizin’s notes about polar bears on Cape Zhelania. Dandy, Dirtyhead and other chimney sweepers Female polar bears with little cubs are extremely cautious. They always try to leave the area where there are many other bears for the place where they wont be disturbed. However, mother bears with bigger cubs behave in a different way. They are already not so afraid of young animals around and capable to compete for food with similar families. Three such families lived for almost a month on Cape Zhelania: two females with single cubs and one with twins. One family became a sort of leader of the territory, and two others tried not to cross their paths with it. The mother of twins quickly obtained a distinguishing mark in the form of black head after the investigation of an ash heap. She actually stopped looking like a polar bear and began to look like an unknown animal species. Foreign tourists watching Cape Zhelania from the deck of a cruise ship fell in genuine excitement when noticed her. It should be also emphasized that the presence of several bears on the shore at a time did not allow landing of two-thirds of the tourist groups from the ships that approached Cape Zhelania. It is often difficult to comprehend, especially when you see a polar bear from a distance, who is there – a male or female, and how old is the animal. In the summer they are not as white as when they are on ice and therefore not all the features can be seen. And very often a bear is very much similar to a chimney sweeper just after his hours. The young bears that scurry about the former polar station and Cape Zhelania and disappear on the day after are very much alike. If such young bears left the families only last year or even this year, they did not yet manage to get individual traits such as scars or features of behavior, and in size they are more or less identical to each other. But those animals who decided to stay for a while on the Cape, very soon started to be recognized by us and even got nicknames: Dandy, Dirtyhead, Yellow, Spotty, Little White Fatty. But usually bears came and went further in their eternal wandering in the endless expanse of the Arctic . . . На русском языке: blog.rus-arc.ru/Blog/RecordDetail?recordId=031b62f1-5e0e-4ffc-8e9b-21110e32dd27&blogId=f8775bf7-7516-4bb9-afca-260963acb518
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:07:12 +0000
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