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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #49353 Polar Bears
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Laidre  and  her  colleagues  analyzed  genetic  samples  from  polar  bears  that  they  tracked  from  2015  to  2019,  which  they  combined  with  data  from  previous  studies.  In  their  first  discovery,  they  found  a  few  hundred  polar  bears  in  south-east  Greenland  are  the  most  genetically    of  their  species.  While  tracking  these  animals,  the  team  further  discovered  this  genetically-isolated  group  hunts  via  floating  blocks  of  freshwater  ice,  broken  off  from  glaciers,  for  about  250  days  of  the  year,  when  sea  ice  has  .  This  probably  enables  the  bears  to  live  in  the  area,  which  has  no  sea  ice  for  considerably  longer  than  other  polar  bear  habitats.  While  this  suggests  all  polar  bears  are  more    than  we  previously  thought,  glacial  ice  is  largely  limited  to  the  animals  around  Greenland  and  Svalbard.  Glacier  ice  may  help  small  numbers  of  polar  bears  survive  for  longer  periods  under  climate  warming,  and  may  be  important  to  prevent  extinction,  but  it  is  not  available  for  the  vast    of  polar  bears,  says  Laidre.  Climate  action  is  the  single  most  important  thing  for  the  future  of  polar  bears.  Most  polar  bears  in  the  Arctic  depend  on  sea  ice.

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