"Arctic Dreams" by Barry Lopez is a fascinating source of information about the Arctic and Arctic animals. It has an extended chapter about polar bears. They are specifically adapted to swimming, and I'm not surprised about the reported speed (6.2 mph) in the water. We gave the one we saw a wide berth, since the naturalist we saw said "you can reason with a grizzly bear, but to a polar bear, if it moves it's food." Dave *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 12 2003 - 17:27:05 PDT
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