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A polar bear is a mammal because it fits all of the characteristics that define mammals. It is warm-blooded, has hair, has three bones in the middle ear, a neocortex in the brain, and mammary glands that it uses to feed its young.

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It has hair, gives birth to live young, maintains its own body temperature, and the female gives milk to its young.

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It has hair, a backbone, has it's young alive and nurses them. That makes it a mammal .

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Because grizzly bears have hair/fur and female animals have mammary glands.

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Well a polar bear is a bear that lives in the north pole.

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A polar bear is a mammal and an animal.

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