00:00 (dog barking)
00:02 (wind blowing)
00:05 (wind blowing)
00:07 (wind blowing)
00:10 (wind blowing)
00:12 (wind blowing)
00:15 - I think it's one of the things
00:41 that confuse a lot of people
00:43 because obviously everything that we see on TV
00:45 for polar bears is all on ice and snow.
00:47 And of course, all the bears' major biological functions
00:51 occur on the ice.
00:52 They breed there, they feed there,
00:53 they raise their cubs there.
00:55 But the Arctic isn't ice all year round.
00:57 It goes through an ice-free period.
01:00 And Churchill, which is like the polar bear capital
01:02 of the world, frequently reaches high 20s
01:05 to low 30s in the summertime.
01:08 And the bears in the wild would do exactly
01:09 what our bears here would do,
01:11 which is go for a bit of a swim, have a bit of a sunbathe,
01:14 and really not expend that much energy when it's warm.
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