You can find about twenty thousand polar bears. You can find them in Arctic (Corwardine 69). They live on the ice of the Arctic (Cavendish 1942). The live chiefly along the northern coast of Canada, Greenland, the Soviet Union, and the islands of the Arctic Ocean. Polar bears also are found near the northern coast of Alaska (Encyclepida 542). You can find polar bears in 50 counties 3 continents (Kallen 4).

    Their home is along the southern edge of the Arctic pack of ice. Although they can swim strongly, they avoid stretches of open water and fast ice. They are carried southwards by the ice in spring and returns northwards when the ice breaks up (Cavendish 1943) 

    Once there were many more polar bears but they have been hunted for sport and for money (Carwardine 69). Polar bears hunt seals and other animals for food (“Polar Bears” 542). Polar bears rarely kill people (Polar Bears 543). Hunters have killed many polar bears for their attractive and valuable fur. In the mid-1980 there were only about 25,000 wild polar bears.

    A  polar bear isolated her cub’s keeps an eye open for intruders on the pack of ice of the Arctic. The cubs’ remain with the mother until they are about two years old, and sometimes are allowed to cling to have as her as she swims along (Cavendish 1943).

     A polar bear has a long body, neck, and head; short, funny ears and sharp teeth. Adult male polar bears measure from 8 to 11 feet (2.4 to 3.4 meters) long. Some weigh more than 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms). Most adult females are about 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and weighs 400 to 500 pounds (181 to 227 kilograms). Polar bears have dense white fur. They can climb trees, too( “Polar Bears” 543).