Having a snowblast! Adorable rare polar bear triplets cuddle and clamber over their mom during playtime in the snow – Loloanimals

Having a snowblast! Adorable rare polar bear triplets cuddle and clamber over their mom during playtime in the snow

Exuberant and adorable polar bear cubs have been snapped playing in the snow with their mothers in a series of breathtaking new images.

Wildlife photographer Isabel Jauss, from Hamburg, Germany, followed several families of polar bears for weeks to capture the pics featuring the cuddly critters and their fierce mamas.

A mama bear looks over a snowy ridge and snuggles with one of her cubs as the other clambers playfully over her

The cute cubs can be seen clambering all over their mothers as they frolic together in the snow, while other cubs snuggled up into their mom’s warm fur coat as she lay down to rest.

Isabel took the incredible images at various locations around the Arctic circle, including Wapusk National Park and Baffin Island in Canada, as well as the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, but did not specify where each image was taken.

One mother bear was pictured during a snowy snooze as her cub lay sprawled out on top of her nestled in her thick fur

The stunning images were captured by wildlife photographer Isabel Jauss, from Hamburg, Germany, who travelled around the Arctic circle searching for the amazing beasts (isaphotography.com/@isawildlife)

She even managed to capture a family of what appear to be triplets – a rare occurrence as most polar bear litters typically feature one or two cubs.

‘The polar bear is one of my favorite animals,’ said Isabel.

‘When I saw the rare triplets, I couldn’t believe my luck. They were just playing with their mother.

‘I learned where I might find a mum and her cubs leaving their dens, so I got myself a warm coat, some solid boots, and went up there in the Arctic climate.’

Isabel also managed to capture a family of what appear to be triplets - a rare occurrence as most polar bear litters typically feature one or two cubs. One of the cubs can be seen playfully biting the ear of their sibling

Like other predators at the top of the food chain, polar bears have a low reproductive rate. One or two cubs are born in midwinter and stay with their mother for two years.

Consequently, females breed only every three years, and the bears don’t reproduce until they are five or six years old.

Isabel’s shots of each polar bear family are stunning – but her snaps of polar bear triplets are particularly impressive given how rare it is for a mother to give birth to three babies at once.

'The polar bear is one of my favorite animals,' said Isabel, who trekked around Canada and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in pursuit of the stunning animals

Majestic, increasingly hungry and at risk of disappearing, the polar bear is dependent on something melting away on our warming planet: sea ice.

In the harsh and unforgiving Arctic, where frigid cold is not just a way of life but a necessity, the polar bear stands out.

A polar bear mom wraps one of her cubs in a tight, snuggly embrace while the other fluffball peeks at the camera over her belly

But where it lives, where it hunts, where it eats – it’s disappearing underfoot during the summertime.

‘They have just always been a revered species by people, going back hundreds and hundreds of years,’ said longtime government polar bear researcher Steve Amstrup, now chief scientist for Polar Bear International.

‘There´s just something special about polar bears.’

Two adorable polar bear cubs copy their mother as the bears look out on their habitat from a snowy peak. The loss of Arctic ice in the summertime due to climate change is causing polar bears to struggle to find food

Scientists and advocates point to polar bears, marked as ‘threatened’ on the ᴇɴᴅᴀɴԍᴇʀed species list, as the white-hot warning signal for the rest of the planet – ‘the canary in the cryosphere.’

Twila Moon, a National Snow and Ice Data Center scientist, said: ‘It’s near impossible for us to see a place where we don´t reach an essentially sea ice-free Arctic, even if we´re able to do the work to create much, much lower emissions’ of heat-trapping gases.’

‘Sea ice is one of those things that we´ll see reach some pretty devastating lows along that path. And we can already see those influences for polar bears.’

In the harsh and unforgiving Arctic, where frigid cold is not just a way of life but a necessity, the polar bear is an incredible predator. But the Arctic ice that is their home and hunting ground is disappearing underfoot during recent summers amid global warming

Freedom! A polar bear mom manages to extricate herself from her babies just for a moment and takes the opportunity for a stretch and a roll in the snow as one of her cubs looks on

Like other predators at the top of the food chain, polar bears have a low reproductive rate. One or two cubs are usually born in each mother's litter, and stay with her for two years. The bears don't reproduce until they are five or six years old.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10182241/Having-snowblast-Adorable-rare-polar-bear-triplets-cuddle-clamber-mom-snow.html

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