polar bear Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... bear Large, white bear that lives on Arctic coasts and ice floes. It spends most of its time at sea on drifting ice, often swimming for many miles. It preys chiefly on seals and is hunted for fur and meat. Length: 2.3m (7.5ft); weight: to 400kg (900lb). Species Thalarctos maritimus...
polar bear Quick reference
Mike Allaby
Dictionary Plus Science and Technology
... bear ( Ursus maritimus ) A large, carnivorous bear, males weighing 350–700 kg and females half that, with white fur, that occurs throughout the Arctic Basin. Although born on land, it is a marine species and spends much of its time at sea. It feeds mainly on seals, for which it requires broken sea ice between March and June to hunt the young, fat seals on which it gorges, its body storing the fat and allowing it to survive the rest of the year with little food. Males are active all year; pregnant females spend the winter in a maternity den. Polar bear...
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The Encyclopedia of Mammals (3 ed.)
...Polar Bear Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) © Corel Polar bears are the largest of the world's bear species. They have a remarkable ability to devour large amounts of fat rapidly when food is available, and then to fast for protracted periods when it is scarce. They are also metabolically unique in being able to switch from a normal state to a slowed-down, hibernation-like condition at any time of year when there is a dearth of food; other species can only do this in the winter. Polar bears evolved from brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) during the late...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
... Bear Founded in 1999 by drummer Sebastian Rochford, this jazz quartet also features Mark Lockheart (b. Hampshire, England; tenor saxophone), Pete Wareham (tenor and baritone saxophone), and Tom Herbert (bass). Mostly Polar Bear plays Rochford originals. Many of these pieces are thoughtful, gently paced and have about them a satisfyingly low-key charm, and because Rochford and his front-line soloists are often unaided by electronic amplification, the group’s intricate and internalized music is vividly exposed. On occasion, German tenor saxophonist Ingrid...
polar bear’s bum, as cold as a Reference library
A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms (5 ed.)
... bear’s bum, as cold as a Very cold 1944 Randolph Bedford Naught to Thirty-three 187: I knew [in the 1890s] … Billy Evans, the newspaper man who wrote a ribald definition of cold, while freezing in the press gallery of the South Australian Parliament. It began ‘cold as the Esquimaux, gloomy and glum …’ 1944 Lawson Glassop We Were the Rats 5: ‘I … sneaks in just in time to see Jerry knock Binghi as cold as a Polar bear’s backside.’ 1971 John O’Grady Aussie Etiket 85: In the words of an anonymous poet of genius, ‘Cold as an iceberg, gloomy and glum, /...
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Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...on the Conservation of Polar Bears An international agreement reached in Oslo on 15 November 1973 between the governments of Canada, Denmark, Norway, the USSR (now the Russian Federation), and the USA. It forbids the hunting, killing, or capturing of polar bears except under special circumstances and requires governments to protect polar bear habitats . http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/agreements/agreement1973.html Text of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears...
The Four Gospels in Synopsis Reference library
Henry Wansbrough
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...dispositions (‘the meek’) because he wished to concentrate on the aspect of discipleship and its demands, the Christian vocation to poverty and persecution. Luke elsewhere stresses that disciples must leave ‘all’, so that they are bound to be poor and destitute. Luke likes polar oppositions, so sharpened the reversal of situations to ‘hungry’ and ‘filled’, ‘weeping’ and ‘laughing’, in place of Matthew's ‘hunger and thirst for justice’ and his ‘merciful’ and ‘receive mercy’. The woes do show significant echoes of Matthew, despite being verbally...
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