what is their significance in indigenous culture?
They have long provided important raw materials for Arctic peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik, Chukchi, Nenets, Russian Pomors and others.
Polar bear
Polar bears have long provided important raw materials for Arctic peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik, Chukchi, Nenets, Russian Pomors and others
where did the polar bear live with her family In the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean what do they eat? ringed and bearded seals are they very strict about their diet? No. in what way? They consume a wide variety of other wild foods, including muskox birds, eggs, rodents, crabs, other crustaceans and other polar bears. did these birds exist since prehistoric days? UNANSWERABLE does the first animal has any links to prehistoric period? Yes, during the Pleistocene period, muskoxen were much more widespread. what are the names of their extinct relatives? "Euceratherium",  "Soergelia",  "Praeovibos", etc. what is the first one? A shrub-ox that is an extinct genus and species of ovibovine caprine native to North America what role do the bears discussed above play in maintaining ecological balance? The relationship between ringed seals and polar bears is so close that the abundance of ringed seals in some areas appears to regulate the density of polar bears, while polar bear predation in turn regulates density and reproductive success of ringed seals.
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Polar bear [SEP] Indigenous people
Polar bears have long provided important raw materials for Arctic peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik, Chukchi, Nenets, Russian Pomors and others. Hunters commonly used teams of dogs to distract the bear, allowing the hunter to spear the bear or shoot it with arrows at closer range. Almost all parts of captured animals had a use. The fur was used in particular to make trousers and, by the Nenets, to make galoshes-like outer footwear called "tobok"; the meat is edible, despite some risk of trichinosis; the fat was used in food and as a fuel for lighting homes, alongside seal and whale blubber; sinews were used as thread for sewing clothes; the gallbladder and sometimes heart were dried and powdered for medicinal purposes; the large canine teeth were highly valued as talismans.