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At the Detroit Zoo
Visitors can watch polar bears gracefully swim above their heads in the Arctic Ring of Life's 70-foot-long Frederick and Barbara Erb Polar Passage. Female Suka was born in 2012 and arrived at the Detroit Zoo in 2018 to join male Nuka, who was born in 2004 and arrived at the Zoo in 2011. Two polar bear cubs were born at the Detroit Zoo on November 17, 2020, to Suka and Nuka.
The polar bears' habitat includes grassy tundra, a freshwater pool, a 'pack ice' area and a 190,000-gallon salt water pool. The Arctic Ring of Life is one of North America's largest polar bear habitats. This state-of-the-art, interactive facility encompasses more than 4 acres of outdoor and indoor habitats and was named the second-best exhibit at any zoo in the U.S. by The Intrepid Traveler's guide to 'America's Best Zoos.'
Description
Polar bears have dense, thick undercoats protected by outer coats of long, transparent fur. The sun's reflection from the dark skin through the transparent fur gives the illusion of a white coat. Their waterproof fur will stick together when wet and act as an insulator.
Fun Facts
Because it receives liquids from the prey it eats, the polar bear does not have to drink water.
The polar bear is a marine mammal and the most carnivorous member of the bear family since its diet heavily relies on seals.
A polar bear's blubber helps it float in water and also acts as a nutritional reserve, allowing the bear to go months without eating.
The polar bear has the richest milk of any bear species; it contains 35 percent fat.
Genetic research reveals when the polar bear became an independent species and provides important hints to understand cardiovascular diseases
2014.05.09|
Polar bear separated from the brown bear into an independent species less than 500,000 years ago. Photo: Rune Dietz
Polar bears tolerate a very high-fat diet without getting thrombosis and calcified arteries. Analyses of polar bear genes can hopefully be used to elucidate one of our biggest health problems. Photo: Rune Dietz
The majority of the samples come from the Greenland catches of polar bear, among other locations Scoresbysund on the picture from where the best Arctic time series come. Photo: Rune Dietz
The polar bear has evolved over time from the common brown bear by changing its fur colour to white, the ideal colour to blend in with its ice-covered surroundings. With new data an international research team now documents that the separation from the brown bear into an independent species has gone very quickly.
'We compared genes between brown and white bears and were surprised. First and foremost, the polar bear as a species is less than 480,000 years old. It is thus significantly younger than previously thought,' says Professor Rune Dietz from the Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.
The researchers believe that the brown bear migrated to the north during a warmer climate period and when a cold period subsequently set in, a group of brown bears may have become isolated and therefore forced to quickly adapt to the new colder conditions.
The comprehensive research project involved participants from China, the USA, Greenland and Denmark. The sensational findings are published on 8 May in the recognised journal CELL whose front page features a photo from the article.
The ‘bad' cholesterol
The researchers also show that the polar bear has developed the capabilities to live in the Arctic during just a couple of hundred thousand years – and this is a very fast evolution.
Just as changes in the genes have led to changes in the fur colour from brown to white, a natural selection has led to changes in the genes that regulate the transport of fat in the blood and the breakdown of fat in the body.
When the researchers compare the gene set from polar bears with that of humans, changes in the apoB gene are prominently evident. It is the gene that in mammals codes for the most important protein in LDL (low density lipoprotein), commonly known as ‘bad' cholesterol.
This is a very important adaptation to life in the high-Arctic regions where the polar bears mainly survive on a blubber-rich diet from marine mammals on the sea ice. Despite the almost exclusively fat-dominated diet of polar bears, there are no fatty deposits in their arteries and they thereby avoid cardiovascular diseases.
'Changes or mutations in this particular gene can be decisive for the fact that the polar bear can cope with high amounts of in particular cholesterol, fat and sugar in the blood,' explains professor and veterinarian Christian Sonne at the Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.
The researchers believe that a new study programme can reveal how active these genes really are in polar bears and whether they lead to production of proteins and enzymes in the cells, counteracting the development of, among other things, cardiovascular diseases. Such knowledge can help reveal how humans can be protected against the life-threatening diseases that affect more and more people as a result of a fat-rich diet.
Warmer weather
Professor Rune Dietz, Aarhus University and Erik Born, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, has collected tissue and blood samples from polar bears for more than 30 years and this has resulted in an invaluable treasure trove of data.
Genetic studies of the comprehensive material can be compared with climate data from the same period and thus reveal during which periods the polar bear populations have been under pressure from, among other factors, the climate and during which periods the populations have had ideal conditions.
'It allows us to predict how the polar bear will survive through the next centuries where the current climate change will bring warmer weather,' says Rune Dietz.
The study comprised blood and tissue samples from 79 Greenland polar bears and 10 brown bears from Sweden, Finland, Glacier National Park in Alaska and the Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof (ABC) islands off the coast from Alaska The analyses were undertaken in a collaboration between Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, Beijing Institute of Genetics, China, and University of California, Berkeley, USA. Main author of the article is Postdoc Eline Lorentzen, Centre for GeoGenetics, the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, who was in charge of the comprehensive coordination of the activities behind the article.
Read the article here: www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00488-7
Other links:
The Long Dark Bear Skin Coat Book
- www.b.dk/nationalt/isbjoernens-hemmelighed-afsloeret (Danish)
Further information: Professor Rune Dietz, rdi@dmu.dk, tel.:+45 2125 4035; Professor Christian Sonne, csh@dmu.dk, tel.: +45 3078 3172; Postdoc Eline Lorentzen (presently University of California, Berkely), elinelorenzen@gmail.com, tel.: +1 510 229 9056.
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Polar bears tolerate a very high-fat diet without getting thrombosis and calcified arteries. Analyses of polar bear genes can hopefully be used to elucidate one of our biggest health problems. Photo: Rune Dietz
The majority of the samples come from the Greenland catches of polar bear, among other locations Scoresbysund on the picture from where the best Arctic time series come. Photo: Rune Dietz
The polar bear has evolved over time from the common brown bear by changing its fur colour to white, the ideal colour to blend in with its ice-covered surroundings. With new data an international research team now documents that the separation from the brown bear into an independent species has gone very quickly.
'We compared genes between brown and white bears and were surprised. First and foremost, the polar bear as a species is less than 480,000 years old. It is thus significantly younger than previously thought,' says Professor Rune Dietz from the Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.
The researchers believe that the brown bear migrated to the north during a warmer climate period and when a cold period subsequently set in, a group of brown bears may have become isolated and therefore forced to quickly adapt to the new colder conditions.
The comprehensive research project involved participants from China, the USA, Greenland and Denmark. The sensational findings are published on 8 May in the recognised journal CELL whose front page features a photo from the article.
The ‘bad' cholesterol
The researchers also show that the polar bear has developed the capabilities to live in the Arctic during just a couple of hundred thousand years – and this is a very fast evolution.
Just as changes in the genes have led to changes in the fur colour from brown to white, a natural selection has led to changes in the genes that regulate the transport of fat in the blood and the breakdown of fat in the body.
When the researchers compare the gene set from polar bears with that of humans, changes in the apoB gene are prominently evident. It is the gene that in mammals codes for the most important protein in LDL (low density lipoprotein), commonly known as ‘bad' cholesterol.
This is a very important adaptation to life in the high-Arctic regions where the polar bears mainly survive on a blubber-rich diet from marine mammals on the sea ice. Despite the almost exclusively fat-dominated diet of polar bears, there are no fatty deposits in their arteries and they thereby avoid cardiovascular diseases.
'Changes or mutations in this particular gene can be decisive for the fact that the polar bear can cope with high amounts of in particular cholesterol, fat and sugar in the blood,' explains professor and veterinarian Christian Sonne at the Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.
The researchers believe that a new study programme can reveal how active these genes really are in polar bears and whether they lead to production of proteins and enzymes in the cells, counteracting the development of, among other things, cardiovascular diseases. Such knowledge can help reveal how humans can be protected against the life-threatening diseases that affect more and more people as a result of a fat-rich diet.
Warmer weather
Professor Rune Dietz, Aarhus University and Erik Born, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, has collected tissue and blood samples from polar bears for more than 30 years and this has resulted in an invaluable treasure trove of data.
Genetic studies of the comprehensive material can be compared with climate data from the same period and thus reveal during which periods the polar bear populations have been under pressure from, among other factors, the climate and during which periods the populations have had ideal conditions.
'It allows us to predict how the polar bear will survive through the next centuries where the current climate change will bring warmer weather,' says Rune Dietz.
The study comprised blood and tissue samples from 79 Greenland polar bears and 10 brown bears from Sweden, Finland, Glacier National Park in Alaska and the Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof (ABC) islands off the coast from Alaska The analyses were undertaken in a collaboration between Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, Beijing Institute of Genetics, China, and University of California, Berkeley, USA. Main author of the article is Postdoc Eline Lorentzen, Centre for GeoGenetics, the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, who was in charge of the comprehensive coordination of the activities behind the article.
Read the article here: www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)00488-7
Other links:
The Long Dark Bear Skin Coat Book
- www.b.dk/nationalt/isbjoernens-hemmelighed-afsloeret (Danish)
Further information: Professor Rune Dietz, rdi@dmu.dk, tel.:+45 2125 4035; Professor Christian Sonne, csh@dmu.dk, tel.: +45 3078 3172; Postdoc Eline Lorentzen (presently University of California, Berkely), elinelorenzen@gmail.com, tel.: +1 510 229 9056.
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