Walruses feed almost exclusively on small molluscs. How do they get them out of the sea floor? With their tusks, it was assumed for a long time. Not true. (Image: Heiner Kubny) By Peter Balwin Around the North Pole lives an animal that has always appealed to man...
Polar bears were actually at the top of the Arctic food web for thousands of years. But with the arrival of man, the place was disputed, because the inhabitants of the Arctic hunted the king for food and fur supplier. But back then the hunt was more balanced. Picture:...
In the Arctic around the North Pole there are currently about 20,000 polar bears divided into 19 populations. The polar bear has become a symbol of climate change. But while researchers and politicians continue to merely debate rather than act: How is the king of the...
What we land dwellers get to see of seals is only a fraction of their lives: Seals are at home in the sea and are optimally adapted to life in the water. If the beautiful Sedna had not resisted her father’s wish to marry her off to a black raven, there would be...
Nothing works in the Antarctic without krill: the small crustacean is the basis of the food chain there. No wonder that the sea turns red when a swarm is on the way. (Photo: Wikipedia) We are lucky – the dreaded Drake Passage between Tierra del Fuego and the...
