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Kieran Mulvaney
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“... one star appears to stand almost overhead hour after hour, night after night, seemingly never moving even as the others circle perpetually around it.
In recognition thereof, it is dubbed Polaris, the pole star ...”
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
In recognition thereof, it is dubbed Polaris, the pole star ...”
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
“It sounds on paper the slightest of shelters for the most powerful of predators. A hole in a snowdrift, sealed by more snow, scarcely seems sufficiently substantial to provide privacy and protection for one of the largest truly carnivorous mammals on Earth. And yet, the hostile environment is an impediment to all but the most curious and determined, and the monochrome surroundings render the dens invisible to all but the keenest, most experienced eyes.”
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
“Tom Smith has found that in Alaska, mothers and cubs tend to tarry at their dens on average two days before heading out for the sea ice, although some do so the same day the emerge ... 'I'm convinced that the only reason mothers tarry at dens is to monitor cubs' growth and development,' he says. 'Once it meets some standard written in her genes, off they go.”
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
― The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
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