2009Aug25: Polar bears have gotten smaller over the past 100 years, according to a study by a research team at Aarhus University’s Department of Arctic Environment. Shrinkage may be due to pollutants and greater effort needed to find food (BBC, 2009).
Reference: BBC. 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8214673.stm
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