The Great Polar Bear Feast

Gathering is a Challenge for Solitary Bears

Polar Bears and the Kaktovic community both feast on the Bowhead Whale. But the normally solitary bears must navigate a complex social scene as more than 80 now gather for the feed.

Gathering is a Challenge for Solitary Bears

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    The Great Polar Bear Feast

    S1 E1 - 54m 40s

    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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