Dozens Of Polar Bears Feast On Whale Carcass In Unusual Group Behavior

As climate change continues to cause a reduction in Arctic sea ice and overall ice cover in the polar region, the already threatened polar bears are beginning to display highly unusual behavior. Largely solitary animals in their adult life, dozens of them were seen together recently on an island in northeast Russia. A tourist boat passing by Wrangel Island, off the coast of Chukotka in Russia's Far East, saw over 200 polar bears on a mountain slope on the island. Dozens of the animals were seen at the bottom of the slope, eating the carcass of a bowhead whale that had washed ashore. The incident took place in September, but wasn't widely reported at the time.