So this has been bugging me for a long time, what has polor bear ‘hunting grounds’ shrinking got to do with them finding less food?
As the ice caps melt seal populations will have to move further into the ice to survive, and so less ice = less distance bears need to travel = less area for seals to hide
So shouldn’t polar bears bears be benefitting from global warming and seals facing extinction?
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Less hunting grounds means less food. Seals don’t just move to the ice, they die because they have to go further to rest, have more predators concentrated on them, etc.
Less ice means less breeding grounds too. Less places to make a den. Having to swim further and longer to get from patch to patch. More and more calories burned, and less taken in. A slow death by starvation.
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