Tundra Animals

Polar Bears

Description of a Polar Bear

• they can reach a size of over 10 feet tall

• the polar bear is white

• the polar bear and can also weigh up to 1,500 to 2,000 pounds

Polar Bears Diet

*Fish

• Seals• Penguins

Range and Habitat

• the polar bears habitat is normally cold and it is the polar bear normally lives in the arctic

• mostly frozen water

Behavior

• Ursus Maritimus• polar bears are

normally solitary animals, normally traveling in groups of two

Reproduction

• about eight months for pregnancy

• one or two cubs

• The children stay with the mother for about thirty months

• the father does nothing to help the kids

Population

• twenty to twenty-five thousand polar bears left in the world

Threats

• Global Warming• Too much Carbon

Dioxide• Not enough ice in

the Polar Ice caps for them to live on.

Tundra Animals #2

Antarctic Cod

Places the Antarctic Cod Lives

– Range: Antarctic ocean to the Southern ocean.

Life

Length of Life: normally 20-25 years

Mating Time: Normally at 8 years of age and length of 3.28 ft.

Works Cited Photo Credits

• www.seaworld.org/animal-info/polar-bear/behavior

• Publisher: Seaworld Parks and Entertainment

• Date of Publication: 1994