# 1469 - Canadian Wildlife - Part 32

Today we will continue the series called "Canadian Wildlife".

The Royal Canadian Mint is known by its high quality work and the enormous number of commemorative coins issued each year. Among these commemoratives we find many, individual or in series, under the theme "wildlife".

Canada, with its vast lands and seas, is the home of a varied fauna and that will be showed in this series.

I will try to post land animals, sea animals and birds, in that order.

The thirty second is a 2010 CAD $3 "Polar Bear"

In 2010-2011 the Royal Canadian Mint issued a set of four coins called "Canada's Wildlife Conservation" series. The Polar Bear was the second issued coin.

It weights 12g with silver purity of 92.5% and Specimen finish, gold plated. The mintage was 8,544 units. The issue price was CAD $59.95.

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is the largest terrestrial carnivore on earth. Scientists place it in the marine mammal group because it lives primarily on the frozen sea ice and feeds almost exclusively on the seals that swim below it. While ringed seals are its favorite, the polar bear will also eat other seal species, belugas or narwhals.

The polar bear displays skills that are remarkably human-like when it hunts. These traits have inspired countless legends among the Arctic’s First Nations people; hunting a polar bear is an undertaking that demands an honest tribute of honor and respect.

The reverse, designed by Jason Bouwman and engraved by Stan Witten, shows a stylized polar bear.

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