Could Polar Bears Survive In Antarctica?

Could Polar Bears Survive In Antarctica?

Millions of years ago, Earth’s continents sat together as a single super-continent: Pangea. Animals of the time could travel across landscapes which are now separated by massive oceans. But when Pangea broke apart about 200 million years ago, this level of animal mixing came to a halt.
It just so happened that the ancestor of today’s polar bears ended up on the continental slices that became Europe, Asia, and North America. These ancestors gave rise to North America’s brown bears 1.4 million years ago, well after Pangea broke apart. It wasn’t for another 1 million years that an albino version of the brown bear evolved and began to thrive in the Arctic, making the polar bear a relatively recently-evolved animal in Earth’s long history.
Polar bears are large, white bears that like cold climates, fatty meals, and long days of hunting. No matter how adorable polar bears look, these animals are not cuddly. In fact, polar bears are ferocious hunters, and they are the biggest carnivores among land animals.
The loss of polar bears at the hands of melting sea ice has led some to suggest relocating these beloved animals to Antarctica. The amount of sea ice is shrinking in Antarctica, too, but nowhere near as rapidly as in the Arctic. If polar bears are given sturdy ground, might they learn to survive?

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➽Audio: YouTube Audio Library
➽Narrated by: Zach Brown

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[ronaldberman]

Putting Polar Bears in Antarctica would be a well-meaning mistake. The Arctic is largely a shallow, frozen sea upon which Polar Bears capture Seals as they haul out or come up for air. The Antarctic is mostly a landmass on which seal hunting opportunities are rare to non-existent. In Antarctica the Polar Bear's only prey would be helpless Penguins. For a short while the Polar Bears would feast. But after the last Penguin disappears, the Polar Bears would quickly follow.

[kevinestrada]

I sometimes tell people this trick question: "how many penguins can a polar bear eat? Answer: none because penguins and polar bears don't live in the same places."

[andrewgonzales]

Penguins would go extinct with polar bears introduced into the ecosystem. The leopard seals will now become a prey animal instead of an apex predator.

[cipe]

This whole time i thought polar bears lived in Antarctica

[AcrabatX]

I’ve always wanted to see a video on this topic.

[nicolesabetti]

This needs correction: Polar bears are not Albino. They Have black Skin and eyes.
Polar bear fur is clear to help reflect all that light bouncing off the ice, since the Artic is made up of wide open tundra and sea Ice, most of the year, which is also clear and acts like a huge mirror for sun. The clear also, helps them camouflage when they are swimming for fish or seals in the between islets of land and icebergs. So, basically the fur is just like the ice... its clear but looks white the thicker it is....same with clear, hair, skin, scales ect.

[jasminegobuster]

Video idea:
Can penguin survive in greenland?
Can hippo survive in everglades?
Can hyena survive in yellowstone?
Can tiger survive in amazon?
Can elephant survive in australia?

[xaratanga]

Polar bears are not albinos, they have black skin and white fur.

[AnimeWrld]

More like "would the Penguins survive" lol

[pavelandel]

fun fact: contrary to what some people might believe, polar bears today are 2 to 3 times more numerous (20-30k worldwide) then they were 50 years ago, mainly thanks to the reduction in hunting and are in no danger of going extint any time soon

[justinpelletier]

Great job with this one! Thank you for making it!

[forrestannis]

Could elephants & crocodiles survive in Indonesia among komodo dragons?

[jdm]

This dude's voice sounds like Triple H and Optimus Prime had a baby. LOL!

[mrgiraffelover]

Polar bears could survive in the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby Subantarctic islands but it's sure that they won't last long in the interior of Antarctica.

[heefonepang]

Boss thanks for making this video which is 1 of my suggestions & speaking about that, I've got a few more:

1. Can chimps of both species survive in the Americas?
2. Can piranhas of any species survive in Africa & Asia?
3. Can coyotes survive in Eurasia?
4. Can king cobras & black mambas survive if they swap places?

[deanoconnor]

Excellent video! It's really very interesting!

[chuckrothans]

@Facts Machine You made a lot of good reasons on why the polar bear might not be good for the native wildlife of Antarctica.
But even though the penguins 🐧 and seals 🦭 of Antarctica aren't used to land carnivores, I believe that they would find away to adapt to having polar bears around. I don't think that they would be driven to extinction by the polar bears hunting them sure it would effect their population but I don't believe that it would lead to their extinction, there is a higher number of individual seal species in Antarctica then in the artic circle an some of them know how to fight back such as the elephant seal and the leopard seal. There are also 5 species of penguin 🐧 species on the continent with and additional 4 species of penguins on the sub Antarctic islands. The seals of Antarctica would definitely adapt to polar bears being present 🐻‍❄️ the penguins would definitely struggle harder but I believe that they will find away to adapt too.
Not to mention that there are also plenty of fish 🐟colossal squids 🦑, and also orcas which are both a source of food and also a deadly rival to the polar bears ( just like they are back in the artic circle) and the occasional beached whale 🐋 carcass. The only real potential threat is the chance of disease that could go either way.

[sbinti]

It would be a horrible mistake if polar bears lived in the arctic penguins which rely on land to escape from preadators like leopard seals and orcas would be slaughtered there's simply nothing the penguins can do to a large preadator like the polar bear and there's a chance the penguins go extinct because of all the competition. But as soon as the penguins gone extinct the polar bears would follow on other then penguins I think that honestly be there main food source in the water polar bears would get bullied by orcas or leopard seals especially if the polar bear tries to scavenge a kill from either of these dangerous preadators. And again in the water seals would be to fast for the polar bear to survive.

[TheNeilo-Audiosound]

Could someone please Give the Narrator a packet of Throat Lozenges🙈

[infinitymixtapes]

Question is would the penguins survive