Polar bear males compete for access to females during the spring mating season. Learn more: bit.ly/3p5ens2 This footage was taken during fall in Churchill, Manitoba. While males wait on land for the return of the Hudson Bay sea ice each fall, they will play fight, or spar, to test their strength against other males, in preparation for the true competition in spring. | Polar Bears International
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Spring and summer are important feasting times for polar bears—especially for mating females, who have to store enough fat to be able to have cubs in the fall. Learn more about the amazing breeding behavior of polar bears: bit.ly/pbearbreeding | Polar Bears International
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Spring and summer are important feasting times for polar bears—especially for mating females, who have to store enough fat to be able to have cubs in the fall. Learn more about the amazing breeding behavior of polar bears: pbears.org/3WGmHxl | Polar Bears International
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Spring means mating season for polar bears! Most adult females keep their cubs with them for 2 ½ years. Thus, on average, in most years, only about a third of the adult females are even available for breeding. Consequently, adult male polar bears are tasked with locating females that might be available to breed, but range at low densities over vast areas of sea ice. Males may travel long distances in search of a mate, pausing only to carefully sniff the tracks of any bears they cross in their tr
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Polar bears have a polygynous mating system, which means that males will mate with multiple females and that their mating system is driven by sexual competition between males. Males and females are also different sizes—a male can be 2-3 times the size of a female. For male polar bears, age is the most important factor in their ability to access females. This is likely because age is closely tied to body size, and we can assume it is also tied to their ability to compete against other males. Lear
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