Caption

Scavenging polar bear (Ursus maritimus) eating the carcass of a stranded dead minke whale on the coast of Wahlbergøya, Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway, Europe

Date

Sep 17, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Olaf Krüger

Reference

BRK24G20_377

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

104.5Mb (9.6Mb) / 24.7in x 16.4in / 7401 x 4934 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty endangered specie endangered species threatened species IUCN island islands islet marine animal marine animals sea animal sea animals marine mammal marine mammals sea mammal Carnivora Predator Predator animal of prey predatory animal beast of prey animal of preys predatory animals beasts of prey wild animal wild animals animals in the wild Wildlife animal feed animal feeds food fodder animal animals Norway Scandinavian wildlife fauna feed feeding feeds eat eating eats Europe Europe's feeding feeding ingestion carcass carcasses cadaver dead animal polar circle polar circles dead nordic Norwegian Bear Ursidae Bears fisch Cetacea whale whales Baleen whale Mysticeti Baleen whales Whalebone whale Great whale Whalebone whales Great whales Balaenopteridae Rorqual Rorquals polar region polar regions coast coasts shore shores costal shoreline Northern Europe North Europe Arctic Mammal Mammalia Mammals Mammalian Mammalians Scandinavia group of islands groups of islands archipelago island group island groups Arctic wildlife photography wildlife photography Svalbard and Jan Mayen Jan Mayen Vest Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago Spitsbergen Spitsbergen Island Jan Mayen natural environment natural habitat habitat natural environments while eating feeding eating Polar bear Ursus maritimus Thalarctos maritimus Thalassarctos maritimus Polar bears Common minke whale Sibbaldius mondinii Balaenoptera davidsoni Agaphelus gibbosus Pterobalaena minor Balaenoptera eschrichtii Balaena minima Rorqualus boops Balaena rostrata Balaenoptera acutorostrata northern minke whale minke whale Ursus (genus) Ursus Ursus Balaenoptera Balaenoptera catching food feeding