How does the polar bear protect his eyes from the Arctic light?
There are plenty of polar bears in zoos around our land and most of us have had a chance to gape at the shaggy white giants. But these living conditions are very different from the frozen north which is their native home. A few naturalists have been to the Arctic to study the polar bear where he lives. The reports on his home life do not all agree but everyone admires the mighty fellow. His scientific name is Thalaretos and it means the sea bear. Most bears like to swim, but this fellow is the champion swimmer, diver and floater of the bear family. He is perhaps more at home in the water than on land. In plain language he is known as the white bear because, though other bears come in various colors, he is always white. He is also known as the polar bear because his native home is the northern polar regions in and around the Attic sea. Here he lives through months of the long Arctic night when the sun never rises above the horizon. He sleeps through the winter night on the ground and th
