2006-12-15 20:46:29 · 20 answers · asked by ferrettavfc 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The coat can vary from pure white to creamy yellow to light brown depending upon season and angle of light.
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2006-12-15 20:51:34 · answer #1 · answered by askaway 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it may be a little wiser to say that the individual hairs in a polar bear's fur are transparent, or to weaken it even more, translucent. As a whole, when seen from a distance, the polar bear looks white to me, and I don't think it would if it were shaved. I will edit this if I happen to see a polar bear up real close in the next couple minutes.
2006-12-15 20:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Most sources indicate that the long, coarse guard hairs, which protect the plush thick undercoat, are hollow and transparent. The thinner hairs of the undercoat are not hollow, but they, like the guard hairs, are colorless.
The hair of a polar bear looks white because the air spaces in each hair scatter light of all colors. The color white becomes visible to our eyes when an object reflects back all of the visible wavelengths of light, rather than absorbing some of the wavelengths.
2006-12-15 20:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right as far as saying each individual hair is Translucent but put millions of them together and it will appear white.. It has nothing to do with light bouncing off the snow that makes it appear white..! If you put one in a blue room it would appear blue....!! This is a bear not a chameleon..
Check out the picture..this ones no-where near any snow..
2006-12-15 21:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by PliNk_PloNk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't really transparent, it is translucent in the same sense of tracing paper,with one sheet you can see through it but put many sheets together and it looks white.
Their skin is black also but the fur hides this. The fur only looks white because of the density of it.
2006-12-15 21:00:04 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not transparent it is hollow, simmilar to optic fibre. This means that the sunshine that touches it is funneled towards the skin warming the lovely beast.
If it were transparent you would be able to see their nude bodies which would not be acceptable!
2006-12-15 20:54:57 · answer #6 · answered by delprofundo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry to say but you're 100 percent wrong polar bears have white its just that their fur is so white due to thier surrounding which we all know is snow and its say to say that polar bears have snow white fur. sorry to say but you're wrong
2006-12-15 21:11:51 · answer #7 · answered by Lil Precious 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're right, it is transparent, and a polar bears skin is black. :-)
2006-12-15 20:49:02 · answer #8 · answered by Minniex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plink_Plonk's photo of an encaged polar bear is very, very disturbing ...
2006-12-15 21:27:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the argument is with a female member of your family,then apparently your wrong,you always will be.if it's with a male,then your right.
2006-12-15 20:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by mike w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋