The Great Polar Bear Feast

Polar Bears and Humans Are Dangerous Neighbors

The bone pile has been stripped bare. And with little to no food left, the bears head towards Kaktovic to scavenge for food under the cover of darkness. Residents start up night patrols to keep the bears out of town.

Polar Bears and Humans Are Dangerous Neighbors

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    The Great Polar Bear Feast

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    Every year, up to eighty polar bears gather on the frozen shores of Barter Island, near the village of Kaktovik, to feast on the hunter-harvested bowhead whale remains. This extraordinary gathering not only highly unusual, it turns dangerous as the whale bones are picked bare, and the huge group of polar bears heads for the town.

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