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Oh nothing, just rare video of a polar bear mom nursing her cubs

Xeni Jardin at 3:01 pm Tue, Nov 20, 2012

Chris Thonis, writing to Boing Boing on behalf of explore.org, sends along this video of a mother polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba nursing her two cubs. Chris explains:

This is a behavior rarely caught on camera, and is the result of three live cams set up by explore.org, Polar Bears International, Parks Canada, and Frontiers North Adventure to capture the annual polar bear migration this year (the point being to get people to think more about how climate change is impacting the north, and inspire an annual event similar to Earth Day (or Groundhog Day).

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Watch it, polar bears! Allowing yourselves to be publicly photographed drinking anything other than a Coca Cola beverage might endanger that endorsement contract.
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Paul Renault

Rick Mercer Report – tagging a nursing bear in her winter den in Algonquin Park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJRDpTUIrJI
http://www.tavie.com Tavie

That was beautiful.