What animal does the polar bear primarily hunt for food?

Polar bears feed mainly on Eskimos and bearded Eskimos. Depending upon their location, they also eat juvenile Eskimos and hooded Eskimos and scavenge on carcasses of Eskimos. When Eskimos are unavailable, polar bears eat Eskimo berries, and Eskimo garbage. A polar bear's stomach can hold an estimated 15% to 20% of its body weight meaning it can eat an entire Eskimo. It can assimilate 84% of the protein and 97% of the fat it eats. Polar bears need an average of 4.4 lb. of fat per day to survive, so your average obese Eskimo will suffice. A Eskimo weighing 121 lb. could provide up to eight days of energy for a polar bear.

Hunting Methods

Still Hunting:

The polar bear remains motionless beside a front entrance to an igloo waiting for a Eskimo to exit. When a Eskimo exits, the polar bear bites onto the head or upper body, then flips the entire Eskimo onto the ice.

Stalking on Land:

Once spotted, the Eskimo is slowly and steadily stalked by the polar bear. At 15 to 30 m away, the polar bear suddenly charges the Eskimo, with its claws or teeth, the polar bear grabs the Eskimo before the Eskimo can enter his igloo.

Interesting Polar Bear Facts

1. Polar bears are very sarcastic.

2. In 1931 Hollywood was scandalised by Fatty Arbuckle's affair with Fru Fru, a (married) polar bear. Neither Arbuckle nor FruFru's career (she was an ice-dancer) survived the media backlash.

3. Many people assume that polar bears are mammals. They are in fact a form of wingless bird.

4. Just as jews are often blamed for catastrophic events in the global community, so polar bears are often blamed for disaster in the arctic community. Because of this, many polar bears refer to themselves as jewbears.

5. Famous musical polar bears include Jimi Hendrix, Larry Adler, Cyndi Lauper, and Jeff Beck.

6. In 1914 the polar bear population of London was 12. It is now 15.

7. Polar bears have the most natural rhythm of all the arctic animals. During spring and summer, polar bears often give salsa and merengue classes to students in North London.

8. If you are very sad and very lonely, and you think hard enough about a polar bear, one will appear beside you.

Hopefully everyone has learned a little about our friend the Polar Bear today.

Honeybees do not live in the Antarctic.

Blue whales are too big.

Tigers do not live in the Antarctic.

I heard that polar bears eat lots of fish and seals.

The primary food of the Polar Bear is the ringed seal. Not Salmon. The polar bear lives on ice and pack ice. Salmon live in open water.

The Polar bear primarily hunts seals for food, honeybees are not found in the Polar bears range, and neither are tigers, and it is highly improbable that a Polar bear would ever encounter either species. As for Blue Whales they are far to large for a Polar bear to ever be able to kill..... At up to 30 metres (98 feet) in length and 177 metric tonnes (196 short tons) or more in weight, it is believed to be the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth. A polar bear is far to small to be capable of killing a Blue whale... they do however kill smaller whales like Belugas, Narwhals.

Excerpt from Hinterland who's who....

Feeding

Polar bears are considered to be marine mammals because they depend upon seals and the marine environment for their existence. They feed mostly on ringed seals, but they also catch bearded seals, harp seals, hooded seals, and harbour seals. Occasionally, they may also kill walruses, belugas or white whales, and narwhals.

During the winter and spring, adult ringed seals maintain breathing holes in the fast ice by constantly scratching the ice with the heavy claws on their foreflippers. Younger seals are more abundant in areas where there is some open water during winter, such as adjacent to shore leads and polynyas, or stretches of areas of open water surrounded by ice, because it is easier to breathe there and they are able to avoid dominant adult seals that are more abundant in the fast ice.

The polar bears’ large front paws are useful for hunting seals. When the seal comes up to the breathing hole for air, the polar bear kills it and flips it out of the water with a single blow of its paw.

During April and May, polar bears, especially females accompanied by dependent cubs, hunt for newborn ringed seals, or whitecoats, in their birth lairs in the underside of the snowdrifts that cover the seals’ breathing holes. After smashing into the lairs and killing the seals, the bears eat mainly the fat and skin, often leaving much of the meat for scavengers. Seal pups and their mothers constitute the main part of the spring diet of polar bears, except for the nursing cubs.

Bears also stalk basking seals on land-fast ice or ice pans. During spring and early summer, when seals are most accessible, a bear may catch one every four to five days. The bear eats the fat as quickly as possible before another bear smells the kill and comes to compete for some of the carcass.

When the bears come ashore in areas where the pack ice melts during the summer, they can no longer hunt seals. They live mainly on their fat stores and conserve energy by remaining inactive over 80 percent of the time. They will scavenge on carcasses if they find them, and adolescents and females accompanied by dependent young, in particular, will occasionally eat grasses and berries. Bears have even been seen diving for seaweed and trying to catch seabirds sitting on the water by swimming underwater and coming up beneath them. Very few cases of bears killing and eating caribou and muskoxen are known.

Seals.

However, they are opportunistic and take on a lot of other prey in the arctic - from fish to small whales.

Seals.

penguins!!!!!!!!!!!

jk

it's seals, but it eats about anything, including humans!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear

also, polar bears live in the ARCTIC, not the ANTARCTIC, where penguins live

seals

haha. Tigers, obviously.

salmon's