--- title: Rare Footage Shows Alaska From The Point of View of Polar Bears description: Biologists put cameras on four female polar bears in Alaska to observe their behavior canonical: https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-08T17:00:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:30.611Z og:title: Rare Footage Shows Alaska From The Point of View of Polar Bears og:description: Biologists put cameras on four female polar bears in Alaska to observe their behavior og:url: https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2870e7b086e563d5/698696b506f2c179e332f611/polar-bear-alaska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2003. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rare Footage Shows Alaska From The Point of View of Polar Bears twitter:description: Biologists put cameras on four female polar bears in Alaska to observe their behavior twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2870e7b086e563d5/698696b506f2c179e332f611/polar-bear-alaska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Rare Footage of Alaska From a Polar Bear's Perspective by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 8, 2014 5:00 PM UTC  A polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2003. A polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2003.Subhankar Banerjee—AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 8, 2014 5:00 PM UTC It’s not everyday that you can see up close what polars bears do in the wild. Biologists with the United States Geological Survey equipped four female polar bears with collar cams in Alaska, in an attempt to learn more about how the animals’s behavior is impacted by sea ice conditions. Researchers [said](http://www.livescience.com/46157-polar-bear-arctic-life-video.html) this is the first point-of-view video ever recorded from free-ranging polar bears. The bears wore cameras for about 10 days, which captured everything the animals were doing, from eating habits to mating rituals. Scientists also hope that the footage will help them understand the potential effects of climate change. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/"},"headline":"Watch Rare Footage of Alaska From a Polar Bear's Perspective","datePublished":"2014-06-08T17:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:30.611Z","description":"Biologists put cameras on four female polar bears in Alaska to observe their behavior","url":"https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Alaska","camera","Bear"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2870e7b086e563d5/698696b506f2c179e332f611/polar-bear-alaska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2870e7b086e563d5/698696b506f2c179e332f611/polar-bear-alaska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2003.","caption":"A polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2003.","creditText":"Subhankar Banerjee—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2845188/alaska-polar-bear-video/","name":"Watch Rare Footage of Alaska From a Polar Bear's Perspective"}}]}] ```