A breathing hole made by a seal in the ice and a trail of bear paw prints leading to it

A polar bear’s paw prints – a narrow straight line against a dark background (the strip is marked out)

An old bear paw print and an ice hole standing out against a darker background

Several ice holes (marked with rectangular shapes)

The coastal zone normally gets well heated by the sun. In the two marked sections, one can see several white spots, which are bears. There are at least eight of them.

The light coloured spot on the ice is likely a polar bear in an upright position, and the darker spot nearby must be its shadow. The edges of the dark spot are too blurred so it cannot possibly be an ice hole. The cracks in the ice floe geometrically resemble bear paw prints.