Smithsonian Channel Welcomes You To Polar Bear Town
Every fall, the tiny town of Churchill, Manitoba (pop. 800) welcomes approximately 10,000 tourists from around the world, all there to see another group of visitors: roughly 1,000 hungry polar bears that pass through Churchill on their way to Hudson Bay — prime seal-hunting territory for the bears. The “Lords of the Arctic” can grow to be 10 feet tall and can weigh more than 1,300 pounds. They are also skilled hunters that can detect the presence of seals beneath three feet of snow and ice and can pick in scents from nearly 20 miles away. Known as the “polar […]