Species: Polar Bear | Location: Churchill Manitoba, Canada
Profile of a very large Male Polar Bear - One fact I learned while on my Natural Habitat Adventure tour at Churchill Manitoba. is that those studying Polar Bears via radio collars out on the ice (which you can find on line and follow) - is that any of these tracked bears are strictly the female Bears. This is because the Males necks get so large and powerful that their heads are actually smaller then their necks, so collars do not hold and fall off. I found that very interesting as my questions I had in regards to genetic diversity in regards to "do the males in many cases just wander forever? Are Some of the males in Churchill out of Baffin or high arctic of even Greenland?", and at this point they can not answer that fully. Those studies are on going via tags and blood (but that is a slow process and rely's on which bears turn up in visible places off the ice). Clearly some return to the same place ( the Churchill "jail" attests to that) but others bears identified are new every year.
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