With majority of the polar bear population living in northern Canada, then where does the rest of the population of polar bears live?Most polar bears inhabit the Arctic and around the North Pole (not including polar bears that are captive).The countries that encompass the Arctic include Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark (Greenland) and Alaska (United States).Polar bears thrive in these Arctic conditions because this is where their food sources are, and their
bodies are made to handle the harsh Arctic conditions, even the winter one.Polar bears spend a great deal of their time in the Arctic Ocean hunting and searching for food.In the winter months they walk on the ice and look for seals and in the summer months they wait on the shore for them.Polar bears know how to use the climate and the land conditions to their benefit when hunting for seals. They will walk on an ice floe (a sheet of floating ice) and look for hole or cracks in the ice.Since seals have to breathe at some time they wait there for a seal to come up for a breath. There are also other areas of the Arctic Ocean that do not freeze, polynyas, these are also great areas for the polar bear to find its favorite food, seals.