Hungry Polar Bear Ambushes Seal | The Hunt | BBC Earth

At this time of year, polar bears, on average, succeed only once in 20 hunts. If the hunter is skinny, like this one, that may not be often enough. All she can do is keep trying. To prevent her scent betraying her, she makes a wide sweep to get downwind of the seal. Getting close. She's now right behind the seal. Incredibly, she caught the seal underwater. It's only small, but even so, its blubber alone will contain 100,000 calories, enough to sustain this bear for a week. And, in that time, she might even catch another. But this can't go on forever. As summer continues, temperatures are rising. Each hunt requires more energy... draining the bears of their reserves.

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 27,985,921

Keywords: BBC, BBC Worldwide, Nature, Natural History, Animals, Wildlife, Wild, polar bear, bear, arctic, cold, predator, prey, ambush, attack, eat, kill, danger, bbc documentary, bbc earth, david attenborough

Id: zNO0kxTClYo

Length: 3min 41sec (221 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 30 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/garepottamus]

Scared shitless is truly an emotion shared across all species.

[u/Whereistashmyporn]

As a Canadian it makes me really sad that these bears will probably disappear in my lifetime.

[u/lexpython]

It's a long 24 seconds of anticipation tucked in there.

[u/MoonLess_Talks]

It's so sad that the warming is effecting all these animals who have evolved to live in the cold so badly :(