As the polar ice caps melt researchers found that Polar Bears may be in danger. Due to the global warming the main source of food for the polar bears, seals, may decrease in large numbers. Although this is a big problem, researchers have found that the alternative food source for the polar bears will be caribou and snow geese. According to Rockwell, a research associate in the Museum's Department of Ornithology, polar bears are opportunists and their diet is also constituted from land-based food; therefore, ;the caribou herds that roam near the western coast and the snow geese my become a part of their natural diet. Thus, allowing them to survive in the arctic.
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February 2016
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