Polar Bears Act as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September Animals

Summary: Polar bears act as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals whose Arctic, near-Arctic areas appeal to the National Audubon Society.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

The altricial (from Latin alere, "to nourish" via altrix, "nourisher(ess)" cubs, helpless with eyes closed but warm with furry coats, accept all the assistance that accompanies the nursing allotted by their mothers to their first 2.5 years in 25- to 30-year life cycles and life expectancies; 2010-11-10 still image of cubs emerging from den in spring and heading oceanward in search of food: Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Polar bears act as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals whose Arctic, near-Arctic areas in Alaska; Greenland; and Canada, Russia and Svalbard and their archipelagos appeal to the National Audubon Society.

The Carnivora (from Latin carō, “flesh, meat” and -vorus, “-devouring”) cat- and dog-like ancestral order member breeds May through June, for autumn implantations of resulting embryos. The Caniformia (from Latin canis, “dog” and -fōrmis, “having the form of”) dog-like suborder member carries 1 embryo or 2 to 3 embryos, for early-winter gestation. The Arctoidea (from Greek ἄρκτος, “bear” and -ῐκός, “of” via Latin arcticus and -oidea, “resembling”) bear-like infraorder member dwells as mother-and-cub social units for 2.5 years.

The Ursidae (from Latin ursus, “bear” and Greek -ειδής, “resembling” via Latin -idæ) bear family member’s 25- to 30-year life cycles embrace 195- to 265-day-gestated newborns.

Polar bears accustom themselves to the northernmost areas and to the northernmost southern areas of Alaska, Canada and the Canadian archipelago, Greenland, Russia and the Russian archipelago and the Svalbard archipelago that respectively accommodate winter ice and pack-ice drifts; Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006, 14:07, biogeographical map of polar bear range: Fabio b~commonswiki, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ursus maritimus (from Latin ursus, “bear” and maritimus, “marine, maritime, of or pertaining to the sea”) finishes the dependent, nursing stage as 24- to 36-month-old cubs.

The maritime bear, gauged by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (May 30, 1744-Oct. 10, 1792), guards physical and sexual maturity as 3.5 to 5- or 6-year-olds. Alaska; Canada, Russia, Svalbard and their respective archipelagos; and Greenland house polar bears as the world-largest extant bear species and as the world-largest extant land carnivore. Polar bears, their feet insulated by dense-furred sole borders, inhabit northernmost northern interfaces of winter ice all the way through southernmost northern interfaces of pack-ice drifts.

Polar bears of sea-ice level through 1,800-foot (548.64-meter) altitudes above sea level journey as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals to cub-birthing, cub-raising, snowdrift-joined dens.

Polar bear mothers allow polar bear cubs all their maternal milk in snowdrift-dug dens between birth months of November and emergence months of March even as they ally maternal milk with summer berries, eggs, grasses, lichens, mosses, seaweed and sedges and with winter seals, walruses and whales until their cubs mature physically into 2.5-year-olds; still image of "polar bear with cub in snow" by Scott Schliebe/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Bearded, bladdernose, harp, ringed seals; carrion; crab; eggs; fish; grasses; lichens; mosses; mussels; narwhals; seabirds; seaweed; sedges; walruses; and whales kindle polar bears’ predominantly protein-driven diets.

Each newborn in 1- to 4-cub litters of polar bear mothers logs 12- to 14-inch- (30.48- to 35.56-centimeter-) long, 16- to 24-ounce (453.59- to 680.39-gram) bodies. Mature, left-jaw, right-jaw, 32- to 42-tooth, polar-bear dentitions manifest 3 upper/3 lower incisors, 1 upper/1 lower canine, 2-4 upper/2-4 lower pre-molars and 2 upper/3 lower molars. Claws, jaws, muscles and 3.4-mile (5.47-kilometer) walking and 25-mile (40.23-kilometer) running speeds per hour not always net polar-bear victories over predatory people, walruses, whales and wolves.

Polar bears as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals offer gray-washed to near-golden or yellow-white, summer- and fall-season, thin coats over their year-round black skin.

Climate change, global warming, melting ice packs and predatory humans affect polar bears and their berry-, fish-, grass- and meat-based nutritional requirements; Wednesday, July 29, 2015, 17:26, image of starving bear near Svalbard, taken from Hinlopen Strait (Norwegian: Hinlopenstretet), a pack ice-filled strait between Spitsbergen (Dutch: spits, "pointed" + bergen, "mountains") and Nordaustlandet ("North East Land") in the Svalbard (Old Norse: Svalbarði, from svalr, "cold" + barð, "edge; ridge; turf; beard") archipelago in the Arctic Ocean (Norwegian: Polhavet, from pol, "polar" + havet, "ocean"; also Nordishavet, from Old Norse norðr, "north" + íss, "ice" + haf, "sea, ocean"): Andreas Weith (AWeith), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Clear, hollow, solar-collecting, warm air-insulating hairs in thick white coats, even on 3- to 5-inch- (7.62- to 12.7-centimeter-) long tails, protect polar bears during winter months.

Mature females, black- and small-eyed, black-nosed, long-necked, small-eared like mature males, quarter 6- to 7-foot- (1.83- to 2.13-meter-) long, 330- to 660-pound (149.69- to 299.37-kilogram) bodies. Mature males reveal 4-foot (1.22-meter) shoulder and 10-plus-foot (3.05-plus-meter) standing heights and 8- to 9.8-foot- (2.4- to 2.99-meter-) long, 900- to 1,750-pound (408.23- to 793.79-kilogram) bodies. Mature polar bear females and males sound braying, growling, hissing, moaning, roaring, rumbling, smacking, squalling and whimpering vocalizations as they sojourn on their four five-toed paws.

Temporary land treks, like year-round ice trips, trigger polar bears as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals traipsing head down and sides, never tails, swinging.

The Chukchi (from Komi-Zyrian чукчи, "western capercaille [Tetrao urogallus]" via Russian чу́кчи) peoples of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Far East in northeastern Asia affirm artistic achievements and environmental acuities in such artistic analyses as those of Arctic food chains between polar bears and seals, walruses and whales; "Ursus Maritimus, Linn. Polar Bear Male," Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon (John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon's second son; Nov. 30, 1812-Feb. 21, 1862); Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a, 1846; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, vol. II (1846), No. 19, Plate XCI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

The altricial (from Latin alere, "to nourish" via altrix, "nourisher(ess)" cubs, helpless with eyes closed but warm with furry coats, accept all the assistance that accompanies the nursing allotted by their mothers to their first 2.5 years in 25- to 30-year life cycles and life expectancies; 2010-11-10 still image of cubs emerging from den in spring and heading oceanward in search of food: Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/11127/; Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWSAlaska), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfws_alaska/5165071314/; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_maritimus_us_fish.jpg

Polar bears accustom themselves to the northernmost areas and to the northernmost southern areas of Alaska, Canada and the Canadian archipelago, Greenland, Russia and the Russian archipelago and the Svalbard archipelago that respectively accommodate winter ice and pack-ice drifts; Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006, 14:07, biogeographical map of polar bear range: Fabio b~commonswiki, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_range_map.png

Polar bear mothers allow polar bear cubs all their maternal milk in snowdrift-dug dens between birth months of November and emergence months of March even as they ally maternal milk with summer berries, eggs, grasses, lichens, mosses, seaweed and sedges and with winter seals, walruses and whales until their cubs mature physically into 2.5-year-olds; still image of "polar bear with cub in snow" by Scott Schliebe/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/10931/; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_maritimus_Polar_bear_with_cub_2.jpg

Climate change, global warming, melting ice packs and predatory humans affect polar bears and their berry-, fish-, grass- and meat-based nutritional requirements; Wednesday, July 29, 2015, 17:26, image of starving bear near Svalbard, taken from Hinlopen Strait (Norwegian: Hinlopenstretet), a pack ice-filled strait between Spitsbergen (Dutch: spits, "pointed" + bergen, "mountains") and Nordaustlandet ("North East Land") in the Svalbard (Old Norse: Svalbarði, from svalr, "cold" + barð, "edge; ridge; turf; beard") archipelago in the Arctic Ocean (Norwegian: Polhavet, from pol, "polar" + havet, "ocean"; also Nordishavet, from Old Norse norðr, "north" + íss, "ice" + haf, "sea, ocean"): Andreas Weith (AWeith), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Endangered_arctic_-_starving_polar_bear.jpg

The Chukchi (from Komi-Zyrian чукчи, "western capercaille [Tetrao urogallus]" via Russian чу́кчи) peoples of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Far East in northeastern Asia affirm artistic achievements and environmental acuities in such artistic analyses as those of Arctic food chains between polar bears and seals, walruses and whales; "Ursus Maritimus, Linn. Polar Bear Male," Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon (John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon's second son; Nov. 30, 1812-Feb. 21, 1862); Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a, 1846; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, vol. II (1846), No. 19, Plate XCI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections @ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclaudubon/x-b6719890/29376_0013; Public Domain, via The New York Public Library Digital Collections @ https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-784d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99; J.J. Audubon, The Quadrupeds of North America, vol. II (1851), opposite page 280, Copyright Status: Not provided; contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34896849; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/7748336696/; (Nothing about copyright), via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/quadrupedsofnort02audu/page/n368/mode/1up

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