ホッキョクグマ一家、100マイルを泳ぐ。生きるため、新たな地へ【動画】

ホッキョクグマは氷から海に飛び込むアザラシを捕まえて食べる。氷のない場所でホッキョクグマは生きられない。ホッキョクグマの家族は、生きるために新たな地を求め、必死で泳ぐ。

この映像は、野生動物の映像を専門とするArctic Bear Productionsが、小型カメラ「GoPro」を使って撮影した。

WWFなどの協力を得て、ホッキョクグマの首にカメラを取りつけ、気候変動に野生動物がどう対応するのか、研究の一環として撮影されたという。

ホッキョクグマは氷から海に飛び込むアザラシを捕まえて食べる。氷のない場所でホッキョクグマは生きられない。ホッキョクグマの家族は、生きるために新たな地を求め、必死で泳ぐ。

やっとのことで泳ぎ着いたその地で、待っていたものは…

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Scientific Name:Psorodonotus ebneri\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Beydaglari Bush-cricket\r\n\r\nCategory: Cricket\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: climate change, habitat loss
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Scientific Name:Rhinoceros sondaicus\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Javan Rhino\r\n\r\nCategory: Rhino\r\n\r\nPopulation: < 100 individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Hunting for traditional medicine and small population size (credit:Klaus Lang)
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Scientific Name:Rhinopithecus avunculus\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey\r\n\r\nCategory: Primate\r\n\r\nPopulation: < 200 individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss and hunting. Known from only a few records in small area of habitat ( less than 10km2) (credit:Le Khac Quyet University of Colorado Boulder)
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Scientific Name:Rhizanthella gardneri\r\n\r\nCommon Name: West Australian Underground Orchid\r\n\r\nCategory: Orchid\r\n\r\nPopulation: < 100 individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Land clearance for agriculture (96% habitat cleared to date), climate change and salinisation (credit:Kingsley Dixon)
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Scientific Name:Rhyncocyon spp\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Boni Giant Sengi\r\n\r\nCategory: Sengi\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Highly restricted habitat and distribution, security issues, oil development in area with associated increase in human population in area (credit:ZSL_KWS)
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Scientific Name:Risiocnemis seidenschwarzi\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Cebu Frill-Wing\r\n\r\nCategory: Damsel fly\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat degradation and destruction. (credit:Reagan Joseph T Villanueva)
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Scientific Name:Rosa arabica\r\n\r\nCommon Name: None\r\n\r\nCategory: Flowering tree\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Domestic animals grazing, climate change and drought, medicinal plant collection and restricted range (credit:Medicinal Plant Conservation Project Egypt and St Katherine Park)
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Scientific Name:Salanoia durrelli\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Durrell\'s Vontsira\r\n\r\nCategory: Vontsira (small carnivore)\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss (credit:Ian Vernon Tim Hounsome Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)
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Scientific Name:Santamartamys rufodorsalis\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Red-Crested Tree Rat\r\n\r\nCategory: Rat\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss through urban development and coffee cultivation (credit:Lizzie Noble Fundacion ProAves)
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Scientific Name:Squatina squatina\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Angel Shark\r\n\r\nCategory: Shark\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Benthic trawling (credit:MediaWiki: Yzx)
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Scientific Name:Sterna bernsteini\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Chinese Crested Tern\r\n\r\nCategory: Bird\r\n\r\nPopulation: < 50 mature individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Egg collection and habitat destruction (credit:Martin Hale)
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Scientific Name:Sygnathus watermeyeri\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Estuarine Pipefish (River Pipefish)\r\n\r\nCategory: Pipefish\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Construction of dams altering river flows and flood events into estuaries (credit:Paul Cowley)
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Scientific Name:Tahina spectabilis\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Suicide Palm\r\n\r\nCategory: Palm\r\n\r\nPopulation: 90 Individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss due to fires, logging and agricultural developments (credit:William Baker Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
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Scientific Name:Telmatobufo bullocki juvenile\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Bullock\'s False Toad\r\n\r\nCategory: Toad\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat destruction as a result of energy development (credit:Andres Charrier)
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Scientific Name:Tokudaia muenninki\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Okinawa Spiny Rat\r\n\r\nCategory: Rat\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss and predation by feral cats (credit:Norihiro Kawauchi)
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Scientific Name: Trigonostigma sompongsi\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Somphongs\'s rasbora\r\n\r\nCategory: Freshwater fish\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat loss and degradation from farmland conversion and urbanization (credit:Nonn Paintwong)
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Scientific Name:Valencia letourneuxi\r\n\r\nCommon Name: None\r\n\r\nCategory: Freshwater fish\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown (declining)\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat destruction, water abstraction and agressive interaction with Gambusia\r\n (credit:Heiko Karst)
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Scientific Name:Voanioala gerardii\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Forest Coconut\r\n\r\nCategory: palm\r\n\r\nPopulation: < 10 individuals\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Harvesting for consumption of palm heart and deforestation (credit:John Dransfield Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
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Scientific Name:Zaglossus attenboroughii\r\n\r\nCommon Name: Attenborough\'s Echidna\r\n\r\nCategory: echidna\r\n\r\nPopulation: Unknown\r\n\r\nThreats To Survival: Habitat modification and degradation due to logging, agricultural encroachment shifting cultivation and hunting by local people (credit:Hein van Grouw)