The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) plodding through the Arctic island's frozen landscape and her three cubs emerging one after ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.

“Watching them sliding, tumbling ... The denning period is the most vulnerable time in a polar bear’s life — and less than 50% of cubs make it to adulthood, researchers said.

In the video attached to this story, you can see a mother with three cubs sliding down snow banks ... No one wants to see a hungry polar bear, which is why these latest findings and videos of ...

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Polar bear cubs were seen without their mothers only 5% of the time after the families emerged from their dens. (Image credit: Dmytro Cherkasov/Polar Bears International) Throughout the study ...