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Carol J. Amore, Executive Producer, Filmmaker & Photographer
Annual International Polar Bear Day is
Feburary 27th

COMING SOON
Arctic Polar Bear Mothers' Interactive E-Book
Arctic Polar Bear Mothers' interactive e-book includes compelling videos, photo galleries, writings, narrations, sound effects and music to capture polar bear mothers and their vast arctic world.
It complements the global award-winning Docu-music video, Arctic Polar Bear Mothers, which immerses audiences in the polar bear mother's "Seasons of Life" from winter denning, spring, summer, fall and onward to the winter's ice sea floes for survival seal-hunting.


Arctic Polar Bear Mothers
Film Presentation
May 14, 2025
The Explorers Club -
St. Louis Chapter
Courage-Determination-Perseverance
Founded in 1904, The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and resource conservation.



Arctic Polar Bear Mothers-Award Winner
Accolade Global Film Competition
Award of Recognition:: Nature/Environment/Wildlife, Editing, Film Short
March 2025



"Experience a majestic Arctic icon magnified through the polar bear mother and her cubs' bond and their persevering drive to survive each season of their lives.This Arctic Polar Bear Mothers film will brilliantly bring you inside their world from their den to hunting on the vital sea ice floes."
Lotsie Hermann Holton,
Chairperson Emerita
The Explorers Club-
St. Louis Chapter
St. Louis, Missouri
"A scientist, watching Mama Bears cuddle Bear Cubs, may call this behavior "maternal instinct." Set to music, this film of animal devotion dares us to call it love. Amazing footage of many Arctic critters brings us closer than it is safe to get, and plucks our heartstrings. As an explorer in polar bear territory on three continents around the Arctic Ocean, I know how hard it was -- and how risky -- to collect this incredible footage. Sixteen minutes of pure joy that will renew every parent, kid, and animal lover. "
Mead Treadwell, Chair, Alaska Chapter
The Explorers Club
Lt. Governor of Alaska, 2010-2014
Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission, 2006-2010, and Commissioner, 2001-2010
"Arctic Polar Bear Mothers film captures the polar bear mother and her cubs emerging from their actual denning site. These young cubs learn vital behaviors for their remarkable journey to the ice floes for the ultimate critical seal hunting life lessons. Most of all, this film's music video story is uplifting and motivating to inspire cheers for the polar bear mother's success through the seasons and her overwhelming instinct
to protect her cubs from harm."
Adam Ravetch,
Arctic Cinematographer & Diver
ArcticPolarBearProductions.com (IMAX & Feature Films)
The Explorers Club - Lowell Thomas Award Winner
"Arctic Polar Bear Mothers is an astonishingly beautiful short film. The images with the mothers and cubs are incredibly tender and heart-warming. The editing, the music, and outstanding filming/photography all come together to give audiences a uniquely intimate window into the first year of cubs' rapid growth connected to their critical dependence on their mother's total dedication to their survival."
Steven Burns
Executive Producer/Managing Director,
Roller CoasterProductions
Former EVP & Chief Science Editor, Discovery Networks
Former EVP National Geographic Channel Worldwide Global Content
-Over 200 Emmy Nominations
& Dozens of Wins & Two Peabody Awards

The Filmmaker's Perspective-
Arctic Polar Bear Mothers.com
From a Docu-Music video filmmaker's perspective, the fiercely independent polar bear mother and her
two innocent cubs frequently faced menacing male polar bear predators which was the essence of this
dramatic and threatened arctic mother protector/provider story.
The mother sacrificed her nourishment for months to nurse her young cubs. Her cubs became magnificent
marine and land predators within two to three years. Their real life test was their survival during the winter
ice sea hunt for ringed seals. As they learned through their mother's guided ice sea
hunt experience they became part of the next generation of hope for polar bear survival.
During different arctic Seasons of Life, other arctic wildlife interactions included in this film were arctic & gray wolves,
lynxes, arctic & red foxes, wolverines and moose. Arctic and migratory birds of prey (gyrfalcon, great grey owl,
snowy owl, great-horned owl and peregrine falcons) were also showcased within the film.
In Canada's Western Hudson Bay, the film's cinematography included a blend of below freezing arctic tundra filming,
frozen shoreline waters, underwater ice filming, dynamic sea and land drone aerials, the arctic night sky constellations and the nighttime's vibrant Aurora Borealis green-blue streaming colors.
This film's motivational and exciting orchestral music within the film has been woven into each Season of Life scene ranging from the mother's den to the sea ice hunt. The Docu-Music video approach is designed to uniquely engage domestic and international audiences as well as inspire learning.
The dedication of all involved in the filming and editing of this film deserve an award for perseverance and determination.Global arctic polar bear researchers and their scientific networks have remarkable expertise to inform the world of the arctic's ever-changing ecosystems.
Polar bear mothers are the real heroines that overcome obstacles each day and every year of their lives to protect their cubs.
Carol J. Amore
Executive Producer && Filmmaker/Photographer
Arctic Polar Bear Mothers.com (Film completed December 2024)
Fearless Polar Bear Mothers-
World's Largest Carnivore Mammal
(Nanook-Inuit Polar Bear word or by Vikings Ice/White Bear)
Scientific Latin Name- Ursus maritimus meaning sea bear
A fierce and ferocious protector best describes the polar bear mother as she defends her cubs throughout their growth in the arctic's harsh and unforgiving environment. In two years, these cubs will leave their mother's protection to start a new life ranging for the seasonal cycle in the snowy arctic tundra to sea ice hunting adventures in the Hudson Bay area.
In general, polar bear mothers weigh about 330-770lbs (150-350kg) and stand about 5.9-6.6ft (180-200cm) tall. In contrast, male polar bears typically weigh about 770-1430lbs (350-650 kg) and stand 8-10 feet (240-260cm) tall.
For perspective, polar bears evolved over 200,000 years ago from their significantly strong and muscular brown bear(grizzly) ancestors. The polar bear paws are partially webbed as an evolutionary adaptation to its massive paws about one foot in width used for swimming in the arctic ocean up to sixty miles a day.
Polar Bear mothers are sexually mature at four years old and males are ready to mate at about eight years old. They will need time to continue to learn to navigate the arctic winter's sea ice and prove their survival capabilities on the Hudson Bay shoreline during spring, summer and fall.
Polar Bear cubs are born November through December in their mother's den. Mothers emerge from the den with her cubs in late March and April. The polar bear is also capable of delayed implantation of her egg to select the best time for the polar bear's birthing for the best odds of its survival.
After about eight months of a Polar Bear mother's pregnancy, she can have her cubs provided she has the physical fat reserves. At birth, polar bear cubs weigh about 16-24 oz. and are about twelve inches long. Males are born slightly larger than females.
Most Polar Bear mothers give birth once every three years. In areas with large food accessible, polar bear mothers can give birth about once every two years.
Polar Bear mothers most frequently have two cubs and sometimes follow with only one cub. Having twin cubs is more the norm and having three or four cubs can be more unexpected. Too many cubs strains the polar bear mothers physical resources to help them all survive.
Polar Bear Mother Denning and Nursing Instincts-
The Polar Bear mother often returns to the same den site areas for her winter hibernation if she is pregnant. Her instincts are her navigational compass back to her familiar denning area.
Intelligent and Alert, the Polar Bear mother knows she has to eat to continue to nurse her cubs in the first year of their life so they rapidly increase their size to just survive in the Arctic wilderness.
From a pink-skinned, thin haired, temporarily blind and deaf polar bear cub weighing one pound or (0.6 kg) in their mother's den, they grow quickly at three months old to 22-26 lbs and when they leave the den in March or April they are 20-30 lbs.
In the first three months, the cubs gain twenty times their birth weight. Each following month they may gain another twenty pounds all from their mother's enriched milk through nursing.
Protecting her polar bear cubs takes her total commitment day and night to feed them and keep them warm in the folds of their mother's insulting fur. The polar bear mother's life-saving body heat and insulated fur protects her young cubs especially when they are secure in her underbelly and wrapped by her immense forearms. Her white fur also serves as camouflage so arctic land and large bird predators are less likely to locate her young cubs.
Outside the polar bear mother's den, her large head folds into her stomach to shield the cubs from the arctic winds since they need to frequently nurse. Her special hollow fur holds heat longer and her black skin underneath her fur also attracts heat. In her arms, it is like a warm solar oven for her cubs' protection. From the outside, an infrared camera cannot even capture her heat signature.
In the first year of the cub's life, they can weigh 250-300lbs. and their mother still nurses them even when she has little food to feed herself. These cubs need this body weight to be ready for the seal sea ice hunt beginning in November as the start of the Arctic winter. Extra fat can be the critical key to their success in arctic life.
Surprisingly, male cubs can weigh as much as their mother at two years of age when they are ready to leave their mother. His added strength will carry her genes forward when he is ready to mate.
Her territorial boundaries are ever changing as the mother guides the cubs towards the frozen ice for the critical and life-saving seal hunting starting in October-November. Winter spans from October to early May with potential far northern temperatures plunging even 20 degrees within one hour especially with high arctic winds.
Play-fighting between the cubs and pouncing on their mother build their physical readiness to defend themselves. What looks like carefree fun and games in polar bear cub play is the initial training the mother encourages to develop their instincts and reflexes to anticipate potential dangers from any direction. Each cub will try to assert their dominance.
Since polar bears are descended from grizzly bears they can mate with grizzly bears and produce a hybrid offspring recognized as a
Grolar(Male Grizzly + Female Polar Bear) or Prizzly(Polar Bear male + Female Grizzly). These cubs often have lighter blonde coloration and/or white and brown fur patches. They tend to be smaller in size than their parents. The Churchill Hudson Bay area is the only area in the world that has polar bears, grizzly bears and black bears.



Arctic Polar Bear Mothers Story
Immerse yourself in the life of a Polar Bear mother
protecting and caring for her cubs in the harsh
Arctic extremes. Feel the high winds, frozen ice and
plunge into the cold waters as the polar bear family
hunts for its favorite food-seals.
Arctic predators (male polar bears, arctic wolves and human hunters) will challenge the polar bear mothers survival instincts.
As a mother she will nurse her cubs to rapidly build their
strength and find food for them to grow to independence.
Carol J. Amore, Award-winning Executive Producer,
Filmmaker & Photographer
Global Film Festivals 2025











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