Polar Bear's view on life: Snow, swimming & seal-eating

(WITI) -- If you've ever wondered what it was like to be a polar bear, this might be exactly what it looks like.

The video below was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera-equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea during April 2014 by the US Geological Survey.

The video, which is the first ever from a free-ranging polar bear on Arctic sea ice, shows an interaction with a potential mate, playing with food, and swimming at the water's surface and under the sea ice.

These videos will be used by the US Geological Survey in research to understand polar bear behavior and energetics in an Arctic with declining sea ice.