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Polar Bears and Grizzlies - Bears on top of the World

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Last broadcast on Sat, 11 Apr 2009, 16:50 on BBC Two (except Scotland) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

This moving film reveals the differing fortunes of a mother polar bear and a mother grizzly bear, and their new-born cubs, in a rapidly-changing world. The shrinking Arctic ice may be making life much tougher for polar bears, but it is offering new opportunities for grizzly bears to the south.

Where once the lives of white and brown bears could not have been more different, in summer-time they now meet along shores and islands almost all the way to the North Pole. Amazingly they have even interbred. It Is a remarkable story of how bears, ever intelligent and resourceful, are adapting to a warming world.

Credits

Participant
Sandesh Kadur

Broadcasts

  1. Fri 23 Jan 2009
    20:00
  2. Thu 5 Feb 2009
    01:50
  3. Sat 11 Apr 2009
    16:50

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Episode 9 of 16 from

Duration

60 minutes

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