RT from Horniman Museum and Gardens (@HornimanMuseum)

In the early 1890s, Frederick Horniman bought a polar bear to sit in the Natural History Gallery.

It was a popular exhibit for over 60 years.

Since then, the fate of our once star polar bear has been a mystery. 🔍

#InternationalPolarBearDay
https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/the-case-of-the-missing-polar-bear/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/HornimanMuseum/status/1630216684748324868

One more for #InternationalPolarBearDay - and #MosaicMonday!
From the contemporary art corner: The Fragile Polar Bear by Amy Lowry, 2007. Mosaic is glass, tile, ceramic, and coral. On display at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.

As prompted by @art_history_animalia - did you know today is #InternationalPolarBearDay? My contribution is somewhat newer (and arguably not as well preserved!). #Canada, have featured a polar bear on the $2 coin since 1996. Here is an example from that first year.

More for #InternationalPolarBearDay: An example of Ditmar Urbach's ceramic polar bear ashtrays from #Czechoslovakia, c.1930s. These were made to commemorate Nora, the first polar bear at
the Prague Zoo, who arrived from the Karlas Circus in 1932.
Image via https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/41117877-ditmar-urbach-bowl-polar-bear-on-iceberg-1

More for #InternationalPolarBearDay: #DYK its scientific name is Ursus maritimus - "maritime bear"!
Swimming Bear, walrus ivory carving, c. 500-1200 CE
Middle Dorset culture, Alamek Site, Iglulik Region, Canada
dimensions: H 30.4 x L 156.0 x W 36.0mm
Canadian Museum of History collection.
image: https://flic.kr/p/5C7gZp

It’s #InternationalPolarBearDay! #DYK Polar Bears are the biggest, most aquatic, and most carnivorous of the world’s 8 living bear species?
Polar bear by Christian Wilhelm Kehrer (German, 1775-1869), 1820, oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt collection.

Image via: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_by_Christian_Wilhelm_Kehrer,_1820,_oil_on_canvas_-_Hessisches_Landesmuseum_Darmstadt_-_Darmstadt,_Germany_-_DSC00082.jpg

Looking for more brilliant books to help you celebrate #InternationalPolarBearDay?

We've put together a list of fantastic reads starring these incredible creatures for children aged 8+... https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/p/books-about-polar-bears-for-older-children/

Pic: Sandra Dieckmann

Happy International Polar Bear day!
#polarbears #internationalpolarbearday #polarbearsinternational #aiart #midjourney

As it's #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️

RT @brookfield_zoo
Oh, how time flies watching Hudson grow up! Today is #InternationalPolarBearDay and we're celebrating the handsome Hudson. Polar bears are vulnerable in the wild. When you adopt Hudson, you contribute to his care at BZ & polar bear conservation worldwide! http://CZS.org/Hudson

Today is #InternationalPolarBearDay. Not a cause for a celebration, as the species is so imperiled by climate change. We were fortunate to see these ones in Kaktovik, #Alaska, where they barely subsist on the remains of whale carcasses while waiting for the sea ice to freeze so they can hunt seals. Sadly, the ice is freezing later and later every decade.

#QuizOfTheDay: Polar bears are the #Largest #Carnivorous land #Mammals on #Earth.

Where can you see Polar Bears? #InternationalPolarBearDay

A. Arctic circle
B. Antarctica
C. New Zealand
D. South Africa

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=624c2ec9c517d01231fbfacc

@𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗭𝗼𝗼
Meet Lindsay-one of the Zoo's polar bear Keepers🐻‍❄️

Last October, Lindsay was a part of the Climate Change Alliance program with @polarbears to learn about diet, behaviour, and reproduction between bears in human care and their wild counterparts 🐻‍❄️#InternationalPolarBearDay https://t.co/jrEh6nQtgV
∙ 𝙵𝚎𝚋 𝟸𝟽, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝟷𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝙰𝙼 ∙

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/TheTorontoZoo/status/1630221518121713665

#zoo #animals

Today is #InternationalPolarBearDay so I'm posting a portrait of one of these lovely and endangered animals that I did in soft pastel on a textured paper a few years ago. I really hope these creatures will survive the changes our climate is facing.

This artwork may be seen in my online gallery at https://mm-anderson.pixels.com/featured/polar-bear-with-aurora-mm-anderson.html or one of the other sites in my profile.
#PastelArtwork #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #WildlifeArt #art #wildlife #TraditionalArt #PolarBears

It's #InternationalPolarBearDay, so we just had to return to this gorgeous piece from @HGold_author@twitter.com about her gorgeous book The Last Bear - and how she hopes it will inspire children to protect our planet: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/features/2021/november/there-is-something-incredibly-special-about-a-polar-bear-the-last-bear-author-hannah-gold-on-the-incredible-beasts-that-inspired-her-book/

Pic: Levi Pinfold

Polar bears depend on sea ice to be able to feed, but a trend towards warmer spring and autumn months is reducing their feeding season, threatening their very survival. To raise awareness of their plight, today has been designated #InternationalPolarBearDay.

#InternationalPolarBearDay

The skin of a polar bear under its white fur is black. The fur is actually made up of transparent, rather than white, hollow hairs, which reflect light and so appear white.

10 things you might not know about polar bears:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/02/27th-february-polar-bear-day.html

#PolarBears #Nature #Animals #Bears

It's #InternationalPolarBearDay and there are lots of wonderful polar bear picture books to help you celebrate!

Here are some of our favourites: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/p/picture-books-about-polar-bears/

Pic: Sophy Henn

ICB

For #InternationalPolarBearDay
A free throwback read

Polar Bears in a Warming #Climate

by Andrew E. Derocher, Nicholas J. Lunn, Ian Stirling

doi.org/10.1093/icb/44…

#science #biology #biologists #climatecrisis #mammals

It's #InternationalPolarBearDay... and it turns out there are lots of perfect polar bear books! Do you have a favourite?

Pic: Ross Collins