Scientific name: Ursus maritimus

Location: Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and USA

Size: up to 2.4m long and weigh up to 600kg

Life Span: between 20 and 30 years

Current Status: endangered due to hunting and environmental factors

Habitat: the annual ice adjacent to the shorelines of the continents and archipelagos throughout the circumpolar Arctic.

Fast facts:

• eats grass, kelp, berries and seals
• they don't have a problem with the cold, their problem is becoming overheated, especially when they run
• they use their powerful sense of smell locate breathing holes in the ice
• they can wait hours or even days for a seal to surface
• powerful swimmers
• run up to 40kpm for short bursts
• they don't drink water.
• they are biggest carnivores on land
• their fur is water-repellent