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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

POLAR BEAR CUBS KISSING AND DANCING IN ALASKA

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Shayne said: 'Normally this would never happen and this is something I have never seen before as long as I have been around polar bears' 

Winter waltz: Photographer captures young polar bears dancing in the snow and even sharing a KISS as they show affection to one another
  • Two polar bear cubs, aged one and three years old, looked to be dancing hand-in-hand and then shared a kiss
  • The cubs were passing time while their mothers were hunting. After a few minutes she returned with food 
  • Photographer Shayne McGuire caught the images in Alaska and said their movements mirrored each other 
  • When food is scarce, usually in the summer, larger polar bears have been known to kill and eat their own kind  
See more pictures of these bears making what appears to be very cool dance moves and gestures of affection


'But the oddest thing about this was that the mother, who is just out of camera, brought her single cub up to play with older bears,' she continued 

 If a mother bear in the wild gives birth to unhealthy or deformed cubs, or is unable to find enough to eat, she will kill and eat them in order to survive. Bigger cubs have also been known to kill and consume smaller bears when food is scarce. ' 


 'The older bear would have usually eaten the younger one because the bears are waiting for the ice to freeze and haven't eaten in a while, so they are very hungry,' said Shayne


'The mother would come up first and meet the sub adult, then let her cub play like she was teaching him to interact.' Although they usually hunt alone they polar bears can be quite social and playful with each other. Ursus maritimus, the animal's Latin name, translates to sea bear. They can swim for several hours to get from one piece of ice to another with their thick coat and layer of fat keeping them warm
 

Numerous reports suggest that there are only 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears living in the wild. Shayne added: 'Since both bears are still young, they were both very playful. It was magical'



Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4150866/Polar-bears-caught-dancing-snow-sharing-kiss.html
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