Time for kick off. It's polar bear football. Their ball control needs practice. But they are experts at dribbling. The game descends into argument. The spycams return to the benches, the bears may be play-fighting, but things still get out of hand. M...
This is a high-risk strategy. Like the male at the whale carcass, some bears don't do sharing. She stands up to make herself look bigger. The cub copies. Luckily, this bear has no appetite for a fight. There is a feeding etiquette around a seal carca...
If it hasn't already been seen, that is. The bears at the whale carcass are in food heaven, but their peace is about to be shattered. This male heavyweight prefers to eat alone. He is bigger than the other bears and likes to throw his weight around....
They continually chatter away to each other. It's all about keeping aggression under control. Their massive claws rake the skin like knives, cutting it into strips. At two years old, this bear is testing his status, standing up to other bears. Sharin...
Back on Svalbard, it's high summer. Barnacle geese that had overwintered in Scotland have started to breed. Their calls bring hope to hungry bears. The cub stays back as his mother explores the possibilities. Bears have only recently discovered this...
Every hunt presents a different challenge, so he plans a new strategy each time. He slinks into the water, using a channel between the ice floes to act as cover. He swims, hardly making a sound, reaching six miles per hour at times. His front legs pr...
Its seaweed. Kelp is not wildly exciting, but it does contain carbohydrates and some protein too. The cub must find acrobatics rather strange. Hungry bears eat virtually anything. Its a question of making the most of whats around, and its never too s...
This new and ever-changing world requires a different spy-camera, iceberg-cam. It effortless steers between ice sheets and its turret rotates to follow the bears. The bear's lives are now governed by the state of the drifting ice and the movement of...
She leaves little behind. Males are still on the lookout for females. For her cub's safety, she heads back to the hills. But as spring continues, lengthening days bring sudden and dramatic change. The highest tides of the year combine with the rising...
But again, a bear helps with the filming. Sealed with a kiss, the couples whirlwind romance will last three weeks. Out on the frozen sea, a young male has killed a seal. He caught it when it surfaced through a breathing hole in the ice. To film from...
