Caption

Polar bear (Thalassarctos maritimus), female with captured ringed seal (Phoca hispida), Spitsbergen, Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, polar bear ice floe, Norway, Europe

Date

Jul 05, 2012

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Therin-Weise

Reference

BRK25D34_385

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53.7Mb (1.9Mb) / 17.7in x 11.8in / 5315 x 3530 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty ice endangered specie endangered species threatened species IUCN carry carrying carries island islands islet Carnivora Predator Predator animal of prey predatory animal beast of prey animal of preys predatory animals beasts of prey Pinnipedia Pinniped Pinnipeds Fin-footed mammal Fin-footed mammals seal seals wild animal wild animals animals in the wild Wildlife hunt hunt hunting hunts foraging foraging search for food searches for food searching for food forage hunting food foraging for food search of food looking for food animal feed animal feeds food fodder animal animals winter in Winter winter time wintry winterly Wintery Norway Scandinavian wildlife fauna feed feeding feeds eat eating eats Europe Europe's female animal female animals female ice floe ice floes feeding feeding ingestion polar circle polar circles nordic Norwegian female females Earless seal Phocidae Earless seals True seal True seals Bear Ursidae Bears frozen frozen over frosted freezing polar region polar regions prey prey preys Northern Europe North Europe catch catches catching Arctic Mammal Mammalia Mammals Mammalian Mammalians Scandinavia animal of prey animals of prey prey animal prey animals Endangered animal Endangered animals group of islands groups of islands archipelago island group island groups Arctic capture prey preying preys preyed capturing captured captures wildlife photography wildlife photography Svalbard and Jan Mayen Vest Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago Spitsbergen Spitsbergen Island Jan Mayen outdoors outdoor out outside open sky adult animal adult animals old animal natural environment natural habitat habitat natural environments mature matures Pusa hispida Phoca hispida ringed seal ringed seals Polar bear Ursus maritimus Thalarctos maritimus Thalassarctos maritimus Polar bears Ursus (genus) Ursus Ursus