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The female is only half the size of a male which is why it can barely fight with the mature male. The camouflaging ability is pretty effective not only in polar bear cubs-it also protects the female polar bear from powerful dominant males. When the food is scarce adult bears might kill their cubs and eat them. Male bears are less likely to tolerate a female walking with her cubs except in a situation when the entire family is a unit.

Polar bears are blessed with a dense white coat that almost makes the bear disappears into the white snowy background of the Arctic. The chief predators of polar bear cubs are other mature polar bears especially the males. Image credits: Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock Polar Bears Camouflage A Polar bear female is about to give birth any time sooner. They just enter into a torpor state in which they can recover quickly and actively respond to predators and so they are not really vulnerable even during deep sleep.

Just to let you know that polar bears are not true hibernators.

They ought to choose quite many actions to prevent themselves from predators such as wolves and foxes.

Although adult polar bears are strong enough to take down any arctic predator, the subadult bears let alone cubs are not that safe.

We’re going to discuss as to how do polar bears protect themselves from predators. Sometimes aggressive male polar bears eat their cubs particularly when they are starving. Polar bears do certain things that protect themselves from probable predators. Nonetheless, polar bear cubs are quite vulnerable to the dominant male bears. Adult bears do not seem to have any potential predators in the wild.

Polar bears sit at the top of the food chain in the Arctic-they are the apex predators.