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Using humor and the accessible language of the Internet to fight misinformation “creates a spectacle and a drama that grabs people’s attention in a way that a science textbook and facts about polar bears won’t,” Supran said.

He suspects that it might just be a few polar bears that do this behavior.

For example, if a mother bear figured out how to use ice or stone in this way, “it’s something her offspring would pick up on,” but not necessarily a skill polar bears across the Arctic would acquire, he says.

The result challenges readers to reconsider how they relate to nonhuman animals, from caged creatures to polar bears in the warming north.

Wild SoulsEmma MarrisBloomsbury, $28On the Arctic Ocean’s fringe, polar bears stand on ice thinning from human-caused climate change.

The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it—a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep.

Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.

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In November, two people were mauled in an unusual polar bear attack in the center of a town near Hudson Bay in Canada.

When Leif stopped he turned about, and with an exclamation of delight, trundled off to the kitchen like a good-natured polar bear.

In front of the alcove was spread the white skin of a polar bear, and set on that was one of those low Turkish coffee tables.

One day a polar bear came to the hut and thrust his head right through the window.

She would drive dog teams and reindeer, ride in skin-boats and perhaps—just perhaps—hunt polar bear.

The polar bear, attracted by the sound of his voice, lunged forward, taking half the tent with him.