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The polar bears of Hudson Bay: cubs, climate, and calories, part 1

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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The Origins of the Polar Bear

Nick has been gathering data, capturing and tagging bears for 42 years. He's handled over 2,000 polar bears in his career so he doesn't always remember individual bears. This was a three-year-old sub-adult male. Just like their black bear cousins in towns across North America, polar bears were drawn to the dump just a few miles outside Churchill for easy calories until it was closed about 20 years ago.

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