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The Loneliest Polar Bear - A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World (Hardcover)
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The Loneliest Polar Bear - A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World (Hardcover)
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The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned
polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save
her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating
climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving
birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and left her den at the
Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny, squealing cub to fend for herself.
Hours later, Aurora still hadn't returned. The cub was furless and
blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the
zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They
would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the
world themselves, by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of
veterinarians and zookeepers would work around the clock to save
the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a
polar bear as Nora's keepers got with their fuzzy charge. But the
two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora's
birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter
killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter,
Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild
bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of
the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and
temperatures creep up year-after-year, Gene and the polar
bears--and everyone and everything else living in the far
north--are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed.
Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught
relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative
and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in,
and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone.
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