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• Polar bears are the biggest and most powerful animals in the Arctic pack ice. The fear no other animal. None are larger enough to challenge the polar bear. Polar bears belong to the bear family. They are closely related to brown bears. Polar bears are as comfortable on land as in the water. They spend a lot of time on land and use the sea as a feeding ground.
• Polar bears are covered in thick, creamy white fur. This fur keeps them warm and gives them good camouflage in the snowy landscape. An average male polar bear weighs over 1,000 pounds and is around ten feet long. Female polar bears are smaller, about about eight feet long. Some Alaskan polar bears have weighed well over 1,500 pounds.
• Polar bears are found only in the Arctic pack ice. When the ice melts in the summer, the bears move north. They return to the southern limits of the pack ice in the winter. Polar bear populations live in five countires: the United States, Canada, Greenland, the Soviet Union, and Norway. The governments of all these countries have forbidden the hunting of polar bears.
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