Author Raymond Lee Newcomb (1849–1918)
English: Mutual Surprise
Subject: Polar bear, Canoes and canoeing
Tag: Polar, Aquatic Mammals
Date 1882
Source/Photographer
English: Newcomb, Raymond Lee (1882) Our Lost Explorers : the Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition, as related by the survors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, p. 187
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46544_Mutual_Surprise.jpeg

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice and open water, and for hunting seals, which make up most of its diet.