Bear Necessities Frontiers North is committed to conservation of great white bears by Rick Groom (with files from Pat St. Germain)
M erv Gunter has seen a lot of polar bears in his time. But the wonder of it never ceases for the owner of Churchill’s Tundra Buggy Tours and Frontiers North Adventures. Thirty years after his first northern exposure, the height of the bears’ social season in October and November is still a thrill, as mothers tend their cubs and males roughhouse on the shores of Hudson Bay before winter freezeup. “They have this sparring behaviour that’s totally atypical of bears. They’re a very solitary animal, but they socialize and they wrestle about,” Gunter says. “Every time I see that it just causes me to stop yet again and watch them, and it’s a thoroughly exhilarating experience even today.”
Polar Exploration: Tundra Buggies
give people closeup views of bears, and vice-versa. Photo courtesy of Frontiers North Adventures
10 MBiz November 2012
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