Question: would you ever think of studying polar bears too?

Iain Staniland answered on 12 Nov 2018:

I would love to study polar bears as they are such amazing and intelligent animals. Climate change is having a big effect on their habitat, the frozen sea ice, where they hunt and breed. So it is important for us to understand how they live in order to help them. I know who a few people who do but it is hard work as they are very dangerous animals that can easily kill a human.
However I work mostly in the Antarctic (surrounding South Pole) and Polar bears only live in the Arctic (surrounding the North Pole), so I have not had the chance to even see one yet.