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Two stories: on a small Arctic island, a student gets an unexpected wake-up call..and when researcher Steve Amstrup accidentally crashes through the roof of a polar bear’s den, no one could have predicted what happened next.
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| Ocean Theme | Georg Brandl Egloff | 00:00 |
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The Encyclopedia of Life, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Atlantic Public Media and with a consortium of marine education network partners.
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