Story By: Pol F, Sub-Editor: Joana Mihajlovska, Agency: Clipzilla

This is the moment a polar bear approaches a Gopro camera and gets very close.

The event took place in Brookfield Zoo, located in Cook County, in the State of Illinois, located in the Central Eastern area of the United States.

The video was taken on 29th October but wasn’t posted until Tuesday this week (3rd November, 2020).

On their Facebook page, Brookfield Zoo wrote: “This GoPro video is probably the only time you’ll want to be so close to a polar bear snout.”

Sondra Katzen, Director of Public Relations of Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo said to Clipzilla that the polar bear’s name is Nan and she is 26 years old.

She said that they have been featuring polar bears all this week, between 1-7 November, for Polar Bear Week.

According to the expert, this time of year the polar bears in the wild migrate to wait for the Hudson Bay to freeze so that they can return to hunting seals.

This week also focuses on the importance of the sea ice to polar bears and how climate change has been threatening the species’ survival.