Polar bear feasts on dead whale in Arctic Ocean
- 6 years ago
A polar bear feasts on a dead sperm whale after it washed up on a beach in Norway's rugged Svalbard archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean.
The footage, captured on Danes Island, shows the polar bear sniffing and preying on the carcass.
Writes the filmer: "A dead whale provides a huge windfall for Arctic scavengers and predators such as polar bears and glaucous gulls.
"This sperm whale carcass washed ashore on Danskøya, on the north-west coast of Spitzbergen, and was visited by at least four bears, although they were never together at the same time."
The clip was filmed on August 7, 2017.
The footage, captured on Danes Island, shows the polar bear sniffing and preying on the carcass.
Writes the filmer: "A dead whale provides a huge windfall for Arctic scavengers and predators such as polar bears and glaucous gulls.
"This sperm whale carcass washed ashore on Danskøya, on the north-west coast of Spitzbergen, and was visited by at least four bears, although they were never together at the same time."
The clip was filmed on August 7, 2017.