According to zoologists, the majority of polar bears are badly adapted for land hunting. For example, animals can pass through nested colony of white geese, however not seize any bird and not ruin any nest.
Pinniped marine animalsWhite bears live on the drifting and pripayny sea ices that allows them to hunt various marine animals - annulate seals, walruses and sea hares and also some other. Pinnipedia also make the main diet of these polar predators.
Bears catch marine animals, gradually creeping to the production because of the shelter and also watching near their holes. As soon as the sea hare or a seal puts out the head from water, the polar bear deafens an animal, striking a crushing blow by a paw. After that the predator needs only to pull out the victim on ice. Cases when the polar bear, swimming up from below, overturned an ice floe with seals are known.
According to zoologists, at first predators eat a skin and fat, eating the rest only at strong hunger - usually polar foxes get the remains of a bear meal.
Birds and rodentsQuite often bears catch sea birds - they quickly are enough production, previously imperceptibly having swum to pack under water. Usually polar bears thus hunt eiders, willocks, a moryanok and some other birds, depending on the territory of dwelling. Bears like to regale also on bird's eggs, making the way to places of a nesting ground and ruining them, at the same time selecting the dropped-out baby birds.
The predators living on polar Svalbard archipelago often do not touch also the wild deer who are grazed nearby, practically without showing to them interest.
The polar bears living in the territory of the coastal tundra quite often hunt northern voles - so-called lemmings.
Vegetable food in a diet of polar bearsQuite small part of a diet of polar predators is made by various components of plant origin. However practically all polar bears resort to them from time to time to fill a reserve of vitamins and other useful substances. According to scientists-zoologists, sometimes predators even feel the sharp need for various vegetable food. As a rule, in the fall they willingly use berries (bilberry, to a voronik and even a cranberry), cereal cultures and greens of a sedge, various wild-growing plants, for example, a sorrel and also mosses and lichens.
It is known also that during March-April the bears can dig out snow to find there escapes of a polar willow and a sedge. Thus predators seek to fill the shortage of vitamins and minerals, scientists believe.
Also it was noticed that polar bears can eat the laminarias which are thrown out by the sea, fucuses and other seaweed which are thrown out by the sea on the coast. And some of the bears living on Spitsbergen periodically dive, seeking to find similar food.
Atypical foodRecently more often mentions that polar bears who appear near settlements eat various inedible objects, up to tarpaulin and lubricating oil meet. However, they are not left indifferent also by the food stocks made by people. Eat predators and food left by the person for dogs and also baits which are in pestsovy traps. In certain cases bears can eat even on garbage cans on the outskirts of settlements. Unfortunately, because of similar habits the wild animals can die - such cases are registered more and more.