Seagoing cousins of the brown bears, polar bears are creamy white, except for their noses. According to legend, they hide their black noses with one paw when they are hunting ice for seals on the sea ice, so as to be invisible. Polar bears are solitary creatures, roaming the tundra in summer and the inshore sea ice in winter, taking seals, birds' eggs, berries, fishes and carrion. |
