Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) mother protecting her two cubs. Wilhelmoya, Svalbard.

Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) mother with two cubs. Rijpfjorden, Svalbard.

Paw with claws of a young Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus). Hinlopenstreet, Svalbard.

Mother Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) with 3 month old cubs near Wapusk Park, northern Manitoba, Canada.

A mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and two cubs near pack ice in Isbukta (Ice Bay) in the Barents Sea off the eastern coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.

Mother Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) with 3 month old cubs near Wapusk Park, northern Manitoba, Canada.

Polar Bear cubs snuggled and resting on mothers body, Ursus maritimus, taiga, Churchill, Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Canada

Polar Bear cubs snuggled and resting on mothers body, Ursus maritimus, taiga, Churchill, Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Canada

Mother Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus, on fresh snow near Churchill, northern Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Canada

Dead polar bear cub (Ursus maritimus) found floating near multi-year ice floes in the Barents Sea off the eastern coast of EdgeÏya (Edge Island) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.

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Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) mother with three cubs on an ice terrace. Wilhelmoya, Svalbard.