Activity 1D – Apply

Reflections in Discord

Overview: Please use this time to reflect on the guiding questions listed in previous sections of Activity One: Polar Bear Natural History.


Follow the link to the Discord community and post your comments from the following questions:

  • Which of the behaviors listed in Activity 1A have you witnessed from the bears in at your institution?  

  • Are there ever any opportunities in your communications to relate individual behaviors of the bears at your institution to species specific behavior in the wild? This feels like an opportunity to share all the fun moments of the bears in your care, being bears?

  • Are there opportunities at your institution for marketing/communications teams and animal care teams to work together when communicating about the animals in your care? For example, do you work together on FB live events, keeper blogs, videos, media interviews. etc. Share some examples on collaborative efforts!

  • How is climate change impacting polar bear denning and reproduction?

  • Please share your thoughts on at least one of the areas below regarding the PBI Polar Bear Tracker:

    • Have you identified the Arctic Ambassador bear?

    • What do you notice about the bear movements? In relation to time of year? In relation to ice coverage? 

    • What are some ways you have/can use this tool in your organization?

A mother polar bear and her two cubs at the edge of an ice floe

Photo: Dick and Val Beck

Finished?

Continue on to Activity Two: Climate Change.

A mother polar bear and her two cubs at the edge of an ice floe

Photo: Dick and Val Beck