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FEMALE NARRATOR: Home.

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It's the place where childhood
and 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 world
she 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 roaming
the 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 learn
to swim like this.

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And there was good reason
to 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 bitten
and 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 ice
starts to break apart.

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I learned this was the natural way
of things.

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But this new, broken, shifting ground
was hard to get used to.

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Keeping up with Mom was not easy.

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One small step for her
was a giant leap for us.

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And now, for the first time, she would
leave 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 frozen
ocean home felt secure.

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Today, the sea ice we once called home
is 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 warm
that first long winter.

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Other than the lights
that danced in the sky,

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it was total darkness
for 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 put
all 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 all
our 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 understand
seal hunting.

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No more spectating in between
wrestling 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 us
completely 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 distance
from 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 led
to the edge of the sea ice.

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It was so thin here, a large male bear
would 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 on
the 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 practice
for 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 confident
that 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 spent
searching for food.

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I want to teach my daughter
where to find seals.

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But the old places I was shown
are harder and harder to find.

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When summer came around again, the ice
seemed 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 allowed
fresh prey into our home.

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And these were not the seals
we'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 on
bringing one home for dinner.

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Catching prey in the water
is 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 chance
at food was worth taking.

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In summer,
the sun never sets for half the year.

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The unending daylight
brings a great wave of new life.

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Everyone rushes to raise their families
in the warm summer sun.

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Even with all this new life, summer is
always 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 floes
to help her hunt now.

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She had to improvise.

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I studied her every move
as she stalked them silently.

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But once her cover was blown,

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it became a game of chase that
we 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 pull
some 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 dinner
than 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 summer
to 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 climb
almost 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 outdone
by yet another male bear.

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The climb was dangerous enough.

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Mom wasn't going to attempt it
with him up there.

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The cliffs were crumbling
beneath his feet.

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Trying to snatch prey that flies on
a 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 managed
to 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 risks
were 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 getting
longer and longer.

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What I learned about finding small scraps
in hard times has kept us alive.

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But a young ice bear needs to do more
than 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 fed
for a very long time.

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But I quickly realized this was not
going to be an easy meal.

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Getting through the thick skin
was 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 interested
in the whale than us.

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I was so jealous,

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watching as he broke through the skin
with his more powerful jaws.

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Mom decided this opportunity
was 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 jaws
to 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 meal
with a nice swim.

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I had never seen so many ice bears
together in one place.

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In that moment, with so much food
to go around, there was no competition.

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So they simply reveled
in each other's company.

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Finally, when even the biggest of them
was 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 remember
the 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 worse
than 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 melt
beneath our feet.

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The old routes through our home
are 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 summer
of my childhood was the warmest.

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The sea ice melted away early.

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And the seals were almost
impossible to find.

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So Mom led me to another of her
special 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 strange
creatures 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 me
to try my hand at hunting.

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I tried to decide which one would make
the 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 walrus
gathered 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 water
to see how I was progressing,

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I had almost worked out a plan.

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Mother walrus, holding their newborn
pups with their flippers.

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The perfect-sized prey for us.

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Just swimming up and stealing them
from their mothers in the water

256
00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:40,545
was not going to happen.

257
00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:50,430
But maybe there would be some pups hiding
among the adults on the beach.

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00:56:09,366 --> 00:56:13,661
There were, tucked in around
the 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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00:56:27,467 --> 00:56:31,262
It wasn't until Mom moved in
and 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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00:57:23,898 --> 00:57:27,152
It was the best meal we'd had in ages.

267
00:57:28,945 --> 00:57:32,031
And I was finally taking
a bigger role in hunting.

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00:57:48,798 --> 00:57:52,594
Just as winter was setting in
that third year,

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my life changed forever.

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00:58:05,190 --> 00:58:09,027
Mom knew it was time for me
to make my own way.

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She had taught me everything she could.

272
00:58:17,911 --> 00:58:19,996
So, she let me go.

273
00:58:38,681 --> 00:58:43,353
Everything I'd learned from her,
I would now have to attempt on my own.

274
00:59:02,413 --> 00:59:04,082
It was frightening.

275
00:59:05,124 --> 00:59:08,503
The world had never seemed
so vast and lonely.

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00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:40,243
I didn't know if I could survive
without her.

277
01:00:10,565 --> 01:00:13,860
I wandered alone for the next three years.

278
01:00:18,906 --> 01:00:22,869
I did not encounter another ice bear
in all that time.

279
01:01:02,617 --> 01:01:04,452
I wasn't really alone, though.

280
01:01:08,456 --> 01:01:09,832
She was with me.

281
01:01:17,090 --> 01:01:19,842
She was a part of every experience,

282
01:01:21,761 --> 01:01:23,221
every decision,

283
01:01:26,724 --> 01:01:28,017
every journey.

284
01:01:33,606 --> 01:01:36,734
A part of the bear that I had become.

285
01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:47,995
Her knowledge is what got me through
those three long, grueling winters.

286
01:02:23,823 --> 01:02:28,953
And then that spring,
something extraordinary happened.

287
01:02:38,254 --> 01:02:40,006
I met another ice bear.

288
01:02:46,095 --> 01:02:50,266
My experience with male bears
made me very cautious.

289
01:02:51,350 --> 01:02:53,936
But that old fear quickly vanished.

290
01:02:56,439 --> 01:02:58,024
He was friendly.

291
01:03:04,405 --> 01:03:08,910
We were the same age and had both
been on our own for so long.

292
01:03:09,911 --> 01:03:13,664
We just played together
like carefree cubs the whole day.

293
01:03:23,132 --> 01:03:25,134
We ran off to my favorite spot.

294
01:03:28,888 --> 01:03:32,558
The ice edge,
where I used to play with my brother.

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01:03:32,809 --> 01:03:35,937
(PLAYFUL GROWLING)

296
01:04:43,838 --> 01:04:45,548
(GRUNTING)

297
01:05:18,706 --> 01:05:24,879
That day, I realized
not all male bears had to be feared.

298
01:06:01,707 --> 01:06:05,127
Just as suddenly as he'd arrived,
he was on his way again.

299
01:06:08,714 --> 01:06:12,802
We were just two young bears
who met one day

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01:06:12,885 --> 01:06:15,054
in the middle of the boundless ice.

301
01:06:29,944 --> 01:06:35,157
Later that spring, my newfound confidence
would be truly tested.

302
01:06:45,835 --> 01:06:50,631
A massive, full-grown male,
more than twice my size.

303
01:07:05,813 --> 01:07:07,606
He followed my scent,

304
01:07:08,899 --> 01:07:11,527
and tracked my footsteps in the snow.

305
01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:54,320
For days, he shadowed my every move.

306
01:08:12,838 --> 01:08:16,467
I had been running from male bears
my whole life.

307
01:08:18,803 --> 01:08:22,306
But something about this was different.

308
01:08:25,017 --> 01:08:26,727
I felt a strength.

309
01:08:33,526 --> 01:08:35,194
I wasn't scared.

310
01:09:13,691 --> 01:09:18,320
I soon understood I was being courted.

311
01:09:52,521 --> 01:09:55,399
He stayed by my side for many days.

312
01:09:56,233 --> 01:09:59,653
Until finally, I felt the time was right.

313
01:10:05,701 --> 01:10:09,788
I wanted no trouble from
any interfering ice bears,

314
01:10:09,872 --> 01:10:15,252
so I led him far away from the sea ice,
into the mountains.

315
01:10:26,472 --> 01:10:29,266
It was a long, tiring trek,

316
01:10:29,558 --> 01:10:33,437
and we had to stop to rest
before we reached the summit.

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01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:46,533
We fell asleep together.

318
01:10:51,705 --> 01:10:54,792
I knew I could trust him.

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01:11:12,226 --> 01:11:17,022
Above the clouds, not far from
the very cave where I was born,

320
01:11:18,190 --> 01:11:22,319
he would help provide me
with the only thing I truly desired

321
01:11:22,444 --> 01:11:24,488
since parting with my family.

322
01:11:25,698 --> 01:11:28,284
A family of my own.

323
01:11:47,344 --> 01:11:49,221
I would never see him again.

324
01:11:53,225 --> 01:11:56,729
But the next spring, my wish came true.

325
01:11:58,397 --> 01:12:00,316
I had a cub of my own.

326
01:12:14,163 --> 01:12:15,289
Just one.

327
01:12:15,956 --> 01:12:18,250
But that made her all the more special.

328
01:12:49,198 --> 01:12:51,909
She so reminded me of my brother.

329
01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:44,378
Nursing my own cub,
looking back on my childhood,

330
01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:49,049
I felt I had come full circle.

331
01:13:49,174 --> 01:13:55,013
And that despite all the challenges,
I had succeeded.

332
01:13:57,182 --> 01:13:59,643
My mother had succeeded.

333
01:14:39,766 --> 01:14:43,187
We ice bears are great survivors.

334
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:07,336
We have always mastered
the changes we have faced.

335
01:15:21,391 --> 01:15:26,813
We have done so by carrying the knowledge
of those who've gone before.

336
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:38,450
Where to find ice.

337
01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:46,500
How to find food.

338
01:15:54,591 --> 01:15:58,387
How to adapt to an evolving landscape.

339
01:16:18,031 --> 01:16:22,077
But I am reaching the limits
of what I know about this world.

340
01:16:31,211 --> 01:16:36,049
These new changes seem to me
almost insurmountable.

341
01:17:00,073 --> 01:17:05,579
My daughter will learn what it takes
to be a great ice bear.

342
01:17:21,345 --> 01:17:23,305
She will endure.

343
01:17:37,819 --> 01:17:41,573
But what kind of world will she call home?