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FEMALE NARRATOR: Home.
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It's the place where childhoodand memory live together.
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But the home of my childhood is changing.
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The ice we depend on is melting away.
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My cub and I are in uncharted waters.
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I was born in an ice cave,high in the mountains.
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But the frozen ocean, the sea ice,was our home.
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Here is where my earliest memories are.
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Playing with my best friend,
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my twin brother.
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And she was never far from us.
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Our protector.
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Our mother.
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I was stronger than my brother.More curious.
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But he was the independent one.
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I always followed Mom's lead.
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And there was a whole worldshe wanted to show us.
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There was so much to learn here.
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She was our only teacher.
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(MOTHER BEAR GRUNTS)
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I copied everything she did.
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I didn't know it, but we were hunting...
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for something.
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(SNIFFS)
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For a smell.
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- (SNIFFS)
- A smell under the ice.
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Whatever it was, it smelled good.
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My brother was ready to attack, too...
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- (GRUNTS)
- Me, usually.
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Mom just kept pounding through the ice.
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I wanted to help her, but...
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I was busy.
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Then suddenly,the whole thing became clear.
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We were seal hunting.
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Well, Mom was seal hunting.
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She was our hero.
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We would've followed her anywhere.
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And we needed to.
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Male bears spend all winter roamingthe ice, and are very, very hungry.
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My brother and I would make an easy meal.
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So Mom led us to the ice edge,to the open ocean.
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The problem was,we didn't know how to swim.
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We'd never even been in the water before.
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It was freezing.
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And the only dry land in sight was Mom.
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(BARKING)
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She knew we weren't going to learnto swim like this.
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And there was good reasonto keep paddling.
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(GRUNTS)
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Finally, a place to rest... I thought.
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And I was wrong.
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When my brother and I could swim no more,she led us ashore.
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I've never been happier to be bittenand tugged by the scruff of the neck.
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We were safe.
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Now we could rest.
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Every spring,as the sun climbs higher in the sky,
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the days become longer and warmer.
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Our world of solid icestarts to break apart.
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I learned this was the natural wayof things.
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But this new, broken, shifting groundwas hard to get used to.
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Keeping up with Mom was not easy.
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One small step for herwas a giant leap for us.
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And now, for the first time, she wouldleave my brother and me on our own.
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She had a new mission.
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I watched her as she silently disappeared,becoming one with the ice floes.
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Master of the stalk.
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Mom knew, from experience,her only chance at grabbing a seal
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was when it was up on an ice floe.
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As soon as it was in the water,she wouldn't be able to catch it.
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There wasn't much for us to do.
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We just waited for her to return.
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(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
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But she didn't return.She kept on hunting.
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Mom caught many seals that first summer.
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We were well fed and wanted for nothing.
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Back then, life on our frozenocean home felt secure.
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Today, the sea ice we once called homeis disappearing.
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Seals need the sea ice to breed.
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We need seals to hunt.
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We are ice bears.
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How are we to survive without ice?
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Our mother kept us safe and warmthat first long winter.
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Other than the lightsthat danced in the sky,
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it was total darknessfor half of the year.
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I thought the sun had gone forever.
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I remember the day it finally reappeared.
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My brother and I loved the sunshine.
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We could go and explore again.
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(BRAYING)
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But Mom was going to putall that energy to use.
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She had a busy spring planned for us.
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Spring is when we need to catch nearly allour food for the entire year...
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and quickly.
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Soon, most of the sea ice will disappear,and with it, the seals.
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This year, Mom would expect a lot from us.
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She wanted us to really understandseal hunting.
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No more spectating in betweenwrestling matches.
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I also learned to never drop my guard.
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(GRUMBLING)
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Males were an ever-present threat.
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And this one caught uscompletely by surprise.
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He was hungry, determined, and relentless.
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(HUFFING)
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There is no safe distancefrom a male ice bear.
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But there is safe ice.
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And Mom knew how to find it.
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She followed the cracks that ledto the edge of the sea ice.
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It was so thin here, a large male bearwould fall right through.
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Most importantly, for my brother and me,
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we could play together.
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In those days, every moment out onthe sea ice taught us new lessons.
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About the different kinds of ice,
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the different thicknesses,
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how to plan the perfect belly-flop attack.
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(BOTH GRUNTING)
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It was an afternoon of pure relaxation.
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Plus, some extra seal-hunting practicefor my brother.
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A quick roll in the snow to dry our fur...
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And we were on the move again.
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We did grow a lot more confidentthat spring.
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But Mom was still the center of our world.
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Today, there is little time for play.
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All of our energy is spentsearching for food.
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I want to teach my daughterwhere to find seals.
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But the old places I was shownare harder and harder to find.
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When summer came around again, the iceseemed different than the year before.
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It felt hotter. And the melt came earlier.
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But the ice break-up allowedfresh prey into our home.
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And these were not the sealswe'd come to know.
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Beluga whales.
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I had never seen a beluga whale before.
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Mom had, though.
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And she was set onbringing one home for dinner.
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Catching prey in the wateris incredibly hard.
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But she was persistent. We needed to eat.
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Finally, one swam straight at her.
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It got away.
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But she was teaching us every chanceat food was worth taking.
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In summer,the sun never sets for half the year.
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The unending daylightbrings a great wave of new life.
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Everyone rushes to raise their familiesin the warm summer sun.
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Even with all this new life, summer isalways a season of hardship for us.
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You needed to take every opportunity.
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(SNORTS)
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The harbor seals were so tempting.
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But Mom had no ice floesto help her hunt now.
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She had to improvise.
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I studied her every moveas she stalked them silently.
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But once her cover was blown,
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it became a game of chase thatwe were never going to win.
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They swam rings around us.
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But Mom somehow was always able to pullsome food out of nowhere.
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Seaweed for dinner.
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We hated seaweed for dinner.
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Especially my brother.
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He'd rather go without dinnerthan eat seaweed.
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(BIRDS CALLING)
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As summer dragged on,food became even more scarce.
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It was there,but it was often very hard to reach.
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Birds came to the cliffs every summerto have their chicks.
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They had to nest wherever they could,to be safe from predators.
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Every square inch was precious.
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(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
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We ice bears will climbalmost anything for food,
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and Mom was ready to show us how.
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But we weren't the only hungry ones there.
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She'd been outdoneby yet another male bear.
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The climb was dangerous enough.
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Mom wasn't going to attempt itwith him up there.
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The cliffs were crumblingbeneath his feet.
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Trying to snatch prey that flies ona dangerous rock face is not an option.
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He had to settle for eggs or chicks.
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Far below, my brother managedto catch us a much better meal.
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It was our little victory.
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Summer was often like this.
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Ice bears forced to extremes by hunger.
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All for a tiny bite.
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All summer ever provided was scraps.
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Those who took the riskswere the ones who ate.
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The land could provide food,just not for us. Not this time.
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Today, the summers are gettinglonger and longer.
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What I learned about finding small scrapsin hard times has kept us alive.
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But a young ice bear needs to do morethan just survive.
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She needs to grow.
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I remember, in autumn of that second year,
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we had an incredible discovery.
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A dead whale washed up on the shore.
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This would keep us fedfor a very long time.
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But I quickly realized this was notgoing to be an easy meal.
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Getting through the thick skinwas nearly impossible.
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Underneath was so much rich blubber.I could smell it.
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But the trick was getting to it.
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Just as we were making some progress,another male.
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Come to ruin our good fortune, again.
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It was best to keep our distance.
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At least he would be more interestedin the whale than us.
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I was so jealous,
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watching as he broke through the skinwith his more powerful jaws.
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Mom decided this opportunitywas too great to abandon.
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Good things come to those who wait.
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In the days that followed,more and more bears arrived,
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lured by the smell of the delicious feast.
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Mom wasn't letting me anywhere close,until they were all well fed.
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It didn't take long for all those jawsto tear through the skin
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and gorge on the juicy goodness inside.
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I so wanted in on that.
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Once they'd had their fill,
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they all washed off their sloppy mealwith a nice swim.
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I had never seen so many ice bearstogether in one place.
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In that moment, with so much foodto go around, there was no competition.
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So they simply reveledin each other's company.
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Finally, when even the biggest of themwas stuffed completely,
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I took my turn.
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Way better than seaweed.
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After all we'd been through,
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all the hunger and hardship,
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I can still rememberthe three of us just playing.
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It was the best day of my life.
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Our second winter was much worsethan our first.
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The power of those storms...
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they were something totally new.
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When spring arrived,there were only two of us.
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The winter had taken my brother.
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(GROANING)
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From then on, it was just Mom and me.
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Fire and ice have always been enemies.But now, fire is winning.
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Even the land is beginning to meltbeneath our feet.
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The old routes through our homeare becoming impassable.
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This is not the summer I knew.
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This is some other season.
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I remember the third summerof my childhood was the warmest.
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The sea ice melted away early.
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And the seals were almostimpossible to find.
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So Mom led me to another of herspecial places to find food.
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The tip of an island,where a new type of prey I'd never seen
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was waiting for us.
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Walrus.
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I was fascinated by these strangecreatures with the strange teeth.
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Or maybe it was "frightened."I can't remember.
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But Mom had a reason for bringing me here.
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It was time for meto try my hand at hunting.
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I tried to decide which one would makethe easiest target.
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(GROWLS)
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I decided none of them.
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Mom went up to investigate the walrusgathered at the top of the beach.
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Adults, all tightly packed together.
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Too many, and too big to handle.
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(BELLOWING)
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When she came back down to the waterto see how I was progressing,
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I had almost worked out a plan.
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Mother walrus, holding their newbornpups with their flippers.
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The perfect-sized prey for us.
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Just swimming up and stealing themfrom their mothers in the water
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was not going to happen.
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But maybe there would be some pups hidingamong the adults on the beach.
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There were, tucked in aroundthe edge of the huddle.
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I took up my position.
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They didn't seem to care.
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It wasn't until Mom moved inand created panic
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that they started moving into the water.
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(WALRUSES GRUNTING)
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It worked.
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A pup, left behind by a panicked mother.
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It was the best meal we'd had in ages.
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And I was finally takinga bigger role in hunting.
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Just as winter was setting inthat third year,
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my life changed forever.
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Mom knew it was time for meto make my own way.
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She had taught me everything she could.
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So, she let me go.
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Everything I'd learned from her,I would now have to attempt on my own.
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It was frightening.
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The world had never seemedso vast and lonely.
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I didn't know if I could survivewithout her.
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I wandered alone for the next three years.
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I did not encounter another ice bearin all that time.
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I wasn't really alone, though.
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She was with me.
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She was a part of every experience,
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every decision,
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every journey.
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A part of the bear that I had become.
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Her knowledge is what got me throughthose three long, grueling winters.
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And then that spring,something extraordinary happened.
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I met another ice bear.
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My experience with male bearsmade me very cautious.
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But that old fear quickly vanished.
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He was friendly.
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We were the same age and had bothbeen on our own for so long.
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We just played togetherlike carefree cubs the whole day.
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We ran off to my favorite spot.
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The ice edge,where I used to play with my brother.
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(PLAYFUL GROWLING)
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(GRUNTING)
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That day, I realizednot all male bears had to be feared.
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Just as suddenly as he'd arrived,he was on his way again.
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We were just two young bearswho met one day
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in the middle of the boundless ice.
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Later that spring, my newfound confidencewould be truly tested.
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A massive, full-grown male,more than twice my size.
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He followed my scent,
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and tracked my footsteps in the snow.
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For days, he shadowed my every move.
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I had been running from male bearsmy whole life.
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But something about this was different.
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I felt a strength.
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I wasn't scared.
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I soon understood I was being courted.
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He stayed by my side for many days.
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Until finally, I felt the time was right.
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I wanted no trouble fromany interfering ice bears,
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so I led him far away from the sea ice,into the mountains.
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It was a long, tiring trek,
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and we had to stop to restbefore we reached the summit.
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We fell asleep together.
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I knew I could trust him.
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Above the clouds, not far fromthe very cave where I was born,
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he would help provide mewith the only thing I truly desired
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since parting with my family.
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A family of my own.
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I would never see him again.
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But the next spring, my wish came true.
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I had a cub of my own.
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Just one.
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But that made her all the more special.
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She so reminded me of my brother.
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Nursing my own cub,looking back on my childhood,
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I felt I had come full circle.
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And that despite all the challenges,I had succeeded.
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My mother had succeeded.
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We ice bears are great survivors.
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We have always masteredthe changes we have faced.
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We have done so by carrying the knowledgeof those who've gone before.
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Where to find ice.
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How to find food.
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How to adapt to an evolving landscape.
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But I am reaching the limitsof what I know about this world.
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These new changes seem to mealmost insurmountable.
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My daughter will learn what it takesto be a great ice bear.
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She will endure.
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But what kind of world will she call home?
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