Scientists have captured insider footage from the perspective of polar bears by attaching video camera collars to the animals for around 10 days.
In the hopes of collecting information for a polar bear conservation plan, U.S. Geological Survey researchers led by Todd Atwood put the collars on four female polar bears to get a glimpse at their lives on the sea ice north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, during April, Mashable reported.
The video footage captured while the polar bears wore the special collars shows a bear moving over sea ice, swimming, trying to eat a frozen seal and playing with another bear that is a possible mate.
Categorized as a threatened species because of sea ice loss, the polar bear is part of the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act, which will require a conservation plan to be established for the bears.
Scientists began observing Arctic sea ice through satellite observations in 1979. As their habitat changes, polar bears are increasingly under threat. Arctic sea ice has declined more than 11 percent per decade in the September ice extent, according to satellite data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.
Prior data has shown that ice extent has been diminishing for at least the past century.
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