On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: pages ; cm.
A profile of the habitat and life cycle of the polar bear covers he species' venerated position in Inuit culture, its reproductive habits, and the environmental factors that are compromising its ability to survive.
Contents:
Europeans "discover" the polar bear (and the bear discovers them) -- The great ice bear -- Polar bear nations -- The Eskimo and the polar bear -- Hunting the hunter -- In the zoo and the circus -- On the whiteness of the bear -- Global warming and the bear -- Is the polar bear doomed?.
Subjects:
Polar bear.
Polar bear -- Effect of human beings on.
Global warming.
Global environmental change.
Polar bear.
Polar bear -- Effect of human beings on.
Global warming.
Global environmental change.
ISBN:
0307270599
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Mammal Bear Ell | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |