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Photos: polar bear cub in Alaska looking up to the sky and "praying for snow"
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A polar bear appeared to be praying for a cold winter after being seen placing his huge paws together and looking up at the sky.
The cub bear was pictured seemingly looking up to the heavens and asking for divine intervention in the animal's current plight.
Temperatures in their Alaskan habitat are higher than usual and as a result the pack have been left stranded on land waiting for the ice to freeze.
Until temperatures drop and more ice freezes after melting during the spring, the polar bears cannot go and find seals.
The male juvenile bear made the plea to a higher power just before he went to sleep, while his while his mother and sister were already napping.
Photographer, Shayne McGuire, captured the beautiful bear in Barter Island, Alaska, on the October 7.
She said: 'It was nap time for the bear, his mum and sister had already curled up, yet, there he sat, contemplating something, that we will never know.
'Then he looked up at the sky, raised his head and paws, and I heard one of my group say 'he is praying for the ice to freeze.'
'It is late in the season and yet, very little snow.
' I have seen global warming affect their habitat, I have been going since 2013 and there has always been snow in late September, early October.
'In 2015, there were snow storms and the snow was deep.
'Since then, I have been in early October to mid October and have had some ice, very little snow.'
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Photo courtesy Caters News Agency / Shayne McGuire
I have recently read some crazy facts about polar bears. They can swim constantly for several days at a time and they are classified as marine mammals. They are actually black, not white. Polar bears roll over the snow to clean themselves and they are quick on their feet. They have a very good sense of smell. Polar bears are the largest land carnivore.
A cute bear in a very awesome look and in praying mode, obviously it's going to be a funny click for many to enjoy. I did, and I know many of you as well. But taking the fun thing apart, there are many things that this pic is simply telling. We have heard the impacts of global warming but we don't know much better as we never seriously experienced it's consequences. But these animals know it better as they are experiencing it in the past, now and for sure in the future.
Now the fun fact is that they did nothing wrong to suffer like this.
Regards,
Joanna
Professional Nanny at Housekeeping Co