Art Pottery

Polar Bear

EGO STONEWARE POLAR BEAR SWEDEN $59.50

Vintage Lomonosov Porcelain Factory Russian Porcelain Polar Bear. $23.99

Polar Bear Dish by Ditmar Urbach $68.00

Van Briggle POLAR BEAR BOOKEND ICE BLUE $26.00

Niloak Polar Bear Planter – Mint $9.99

Art Pottery Round box with Hand Painted polar bear signed by artist $20.00

Vintage Cmielow Poland White Porcelain Standing Polar Bear Figurine MCM VERY HTF $296.65

Polar Bear with sunglasses Flower Frog/sachet holder/Vase Signed A.Mell 1979 $11.99

Vintage Maigon Daga Studio Art Pottery Polar Bear Statue Sculpture $24.99

ROYAL RUDOLSTADT, Germany ~ “POLAR BEAR” Glass w/AMBER Eyes 1878-1920 $255.00

Maigon Daga Standing Polar Bear Sculpture Signed $59.88

POD Of Edgecomb Maine Polar Bear Mother & Cub $17.50

ANTIQUE Art Nouveau Pottery Flower FROG-Nude Lady ON POLAR BEAR- GERMANY $99.99

COLLECTABLE WADE WHIMSIE WHIMSIES POLAR BEAR 1¾” LONG 1980 $1.55

Polar bear figurines japan $12.97

Vintage SylvaC Green Polar Bear 3″ high (75mm) $7.83

Czech Art Deco Pottery Polar Bear Dish Urbach Ditmar $195.00

CLAY WORKS Sky Blue RESTING POLAR BEAR WITH HEART T-LIGHT HOLDER- SIGNED 2001 $14.99

VTG CERAMIC Arts Studio MADISON WIS. MAMA & BABY POLAR BEAR Salt Pepper SHAKERS $9.99

CLASSIC PORCELAIN POLAR BEAR FIGURINE CLUJ ROMANIA $9.99

Marmot Polar Bear Christmas Plate $13.30

Blue Witch 3D Mug – Bear -Polar,animals gift $28.95

Arabia Finland POLAR BEAR DESIGN BY RAILI EEROLA Scandinavian Art POTTERY $1.94

Blue Mountain POTTERY POLAR BEAR ON ROCK 11269 $29.23

Wade Porcelain Whimtray Dish – Polar Bear – vintage $3.14

Rare Large Majolica Polar Bear Bowl Eichwald Czechoslovakia 8″ $295.00

Large Royal Copenhagen Polar Bear Artist Signed $750.00

Artist Made Polar Bear Pottery Plate- Beautiful! $13.49

CHODZIEZ VINTAGE POLISH LARGE IMPRESSIVE PORCELAIN POLAR BEAR $124.90

1930s Porcelain Polar Bear Figurine Gold Accents Nice $9.59

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A Polar Bear Speaks

I am Nanook. At least that’s what the Eskimos call me. You probably know me better as the polar bear. I also go by the name of ice bear or sea bear.

I’m famous all over the world but especially in Canada where they even have my image on the back of their 2 dollar coin. That’s probably because 60 percent of my extended polar bear family lives there. The rest of them live in Alaska, Norway, Greenland and Russia.

I earn my living in the freezing polar seas and can swim up to 60 miles at a time but recently I’ve had a hard time finding the ice packs I depend on to rest during those long swims. More and more of my brothers have died this way lately, hunting and foraging for food to feed their families.

Unlike you land dwellers, we polar bears are marine animals. We need the ice packs to hunt for ring seals, mate, raise our young and take a break on our forages for food. Ring seals as you may or may not know, also live on the Arctic ice and make up the bulk of our diet. There’s not as many of them as there used to be so we go hungry for longer periods of time. Without them we literally starve since other food is so scare in the Arctic.

It’s getting tougher and tougher these days to find ice packs. I don’t know very much about science but I hear people talking about global climate change or something like that and how it’s causing my Arctic home to shrink. I don’t know about that, but I can tell you that my swims are longer and I’m not as heavy as I once was because of it.

Humans are always trying to take weight off but we polar bears need it to survive the freezing temperatures and cold water we live in so we need large bodies with lots of fat. When we feed ourselves, we purposely eat the blubber of the seals in order to gain lots of weight and add insulation to our bodies. A fat bear is able to survive better in our icy, watery world.

Like you, we’re mammals but we differ in many ways and live in places that most people usually avoid visiting. Maybe that’s why some people don’t seem to care about what’s happening to us. It’s hard to relate to us since you might only have seen us in a zoo and not our natural home where we’re renowned as kings.

We’re having fewer babies too. My mate can only give birth once every three years and since I’m spending more and more time looking for a meal, we’ve been missing the mating season so we haven’t had kids for awhile.

If you haven’t guessed by now, polar bears can’t really speak. But if I could I would stand up for myself in the governments and legislatures of the world and tell them what’s going on in my Arctic homeland.

Bears drowning, bears being hunted for sport, infants starving, pollution of waters and the animals I feed on, polar bear cannibalism, bears so thin you can see their bones through their fur, bears forced to scavenge around human settlements for scraps of food instead of hunting on the ice packs that were so plentiful once upon a time.

All these things I didn’t cause and can’t control add up to a life that’s full of misery and despair. It’s almost not worth living unless something can be done soon to offset the damage from humans and the effects of global climate change.

What can be done about it? I don’t know. I’m only a bear and have no rights in human courts. I don’t read, I don’t write and can’t stand up for myself. I can’t march in a rally or sign a petition. If I could, believe me I would.

Since I can’t do any of of these things myself, would you do it for me?

Won’t you at least sign a petition to let authorities like the government of Canada know that you care about me and want something done about my situation as soon as possible?

If you help me, you’ll be helping lots of other Arctic animals too since they’re feeling the same effects. If something isn’t done now, humans will eventually also face the devastation that global climate change causes.

No one can stop climate change but something needs to be done to reduce the impact and lessen the misery it causes.

About the Author

Vist: http://polarbearpetition.com to Sign the Petition
For more information regarding Polar Bears, visit: http://polarbearcentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/polar-bear-speaks.html at Polar Bear Central

Who would win a fight between a Polar Bear and a Siberian Tiger?

I’m assuming the territory would be some sort of neutral surface. perhaps snow but not too deep. Also we are talking about pretty much equal weight both adults. I have had this debate with many people and they seem to usually favor the Polar Bear but I’m not so sure.

This fight is very situational, if the tiger jumps on the back of the bear and holds on while biting into the throat the tiger could win.

If the tiger comes strait on and the bear gets a big paw across the cats face that just may be enough take out the cat.

You must take into consideration the speed of the tiger though, I have seen videos on youtube of tigers killing huge crocs by like wrestling them on the ground and biting them in the head for the kill.

If the tiger was stalking the bear and viewing it as prey, I would have to favor the cats ability to strike and kill quickly, however if the bear met the cat face on, while it still is sort of a coin toss, I think the favor might tip to the bear.

Polar bears and dogs playing