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Polar Bear Sea-Ice Hunting Platform

Interactive 3D simulation: shrink and fragment Arctic sea ice with a warming-severity slider and watch a polar bear's hunting platform, hunting season length, energy reserves and multi-year body condition respond.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water ❄️ Ice & Cold

Drag the warming-severity slider to compress a polar bear's Arctic hunting grounds — sea ice acts as the platform it needs to ambush seals, and warming shrinks both how much of it exists and how long each year it lasts. Watch hunting success, energy reserves and a multi-year body-condition trend respond.

⚙ Under the hood

Polar bears hunt seals almost exclusively from sea ice, which they cannot replicate in open water. Slide warming severity to shrink and fragment the ice platform and its hunting season, then watch hunting success, energy reserves drained by forced open-water swims, and a multi-year body-condition and reproductive-success trend all decline.

Polar BearSea IceArctic WarmingHunting PlatformBody ConditionClimate Change

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install