In a related question is was asked: Just how cold is it outside in Snowpiercer?. Would it be possible for any life to survive outside the train in these extreme temperatures?
At the end we see that the world is beginning to warm up and there is a polar bear up in the mountains. How could have the bear survived, or was this just a hallucination?
Answer
Yes, life (including large animals) was able to survive outside the train. How they do so isn't explained in any great detail.
We know from this 2008 interview for YonHap that the temperature outside the train was supposedly around -80°C, low enough to kill all but the hardiest of arctic creatures.
In a recent interview for Hitfix however, it appears that an early decision taken to show life outside the train was made for financial, rather than story reasons:
Although the tail section was just one of 60 cars, Choi said only about half of those were actually constructed. He also revealed Bong's initial desire for an on-board zoo. "It's a 60-car train and we see 26 cars. That's how many we built. There are definitely a lot of cars that we don't see in the film. We just shot what was in the script," said Choi. "Whatever filled the narrative needs of whatever particular section we shot. They asked Bong a bunch of times if there were any cars that he imagined that he didn't shoot and one of them was a zoo section with animals crammed in and a giraffe with his head down to fit inside. That was ultimately abandoned because he wanted to show life at the end. He didn't want to have living animals inside."
There's no indication that the ending was anything other than a real depiction of a polar bear
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