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BBC Nature: Filming Frozen Planet at Arctic Watch

Nov 16

Arctic Watch is proud to present BBC’s footage of the beluga whales at Arctic Watch. Recently returned from filming the beluga whales at Arctic Watch, the BBC Nature film crew is working on a new series, Frozen Planet, coming out soon!

At Arctic Watch, we are proud to share our arctic safari experience. Nowhere else can you experience untouched, untamed and unspoiled wilderness. Polar bears, beluga whales, musk ox, snowy owls, arctic foxes… It’s all at Arctic Watch.

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BBC Earth features the Belugas from Arctic Watch!

Mar 29

BBC is known for filming the best of nature’s greatest events. That’s why they chose to film the beluga whales at Arctic Watch. I have included a link to this stunning video footage from the beluga whales at Arctic Watch. This amazing footage was taken a mere 15 minutes from Arctic Watch! BBC’s Earth series filmed these beluga whales from helicopter and from our observation tower, right on the shoreline! Enjoy! http://bbcearth.posterous.com/

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Polar Bears and Beluga Whales at Arctic Watch

Mar 16

Last week, I came across a great video from BBC’s Blue Planet that I would love to share with you! Entitled “Polar Bear Hunts Beluga Whales”, this amazing video shows the gripping reality of the Arctic. It’s a fairly normal behaviour exhibited by polar bears, and we’ve seen our share of polar bears at Arctic Watch!  Regular visitors to our lodge, bears often wander past the lodge, and out to the sea ice. Several years ago, we encountered a mother and her cub eating a beluga whale! Although we did not see the mother hunting the whale, we presume she captured it by herself! This may be a somewhat harsh display of nature, but at times, it is the gripping reality of the survival in nature. It was a spectacular experience to witness the mother polar bear and her cub feasting on this animal.

It is generally accepted that in their first year of life, polar bear cubs have a 20% survival rate. Through her hunting skills, this mother polar bear and her cub were given a greater chance of survival!

This was not the first time we have seen polar bears interact with beluga whales. On a different occasion, we observed a young male polar bear jump into the Cunningham River, right in with the belugas congregating there! A certainly impressive display of nature at work, (several hundred whales were there at the time!), a pod of male beluga whales successfully ‘pushed’ the polar bear away from the group and away from their young!

Please enjoy this great video from BBC!

Polar Bear Hunts Beluga Whale (youtube)

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