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♪♪
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This planet,hanging in space like a lonely blue pea,
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is our home.
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We share it with a dazzling numberof other life forms,
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because the other planetsare, frankly, hopeless.
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No, this planet is the best one.
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It's got everything:
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flying things,
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furry things,
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stripy things,
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wet things,
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cold things,
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more wet things,
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and penguins.
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So many animals that,if you put them side to side,
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they would cover the whole earth,
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which they already do.
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For that planet is this planet...
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Round Planet: The Story of Everything.
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Not everything. Not shoes;
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we don't talk about shoes,but most things.
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The Arctic;
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one of the iciest places on earth.
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Oh, look, there's an iceberg.
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Serene, majestic,and quite breathtaking.
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Its only natural enemy is the Titanic,and it saw that off years ago.
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Here, everything is frozen;
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this bit...
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that bit,
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and the bits of Garth the cameramanwhen he got these shots on Baffin Island.
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But the residents are okay with that.
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The dandy arctic fox,
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the polar bear--
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yeah, you have to get one of those in.
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And the mighty narwhal.
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The cold never bothered them anyway.
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It's the warmth they fear,
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especially since we clicked the settingon Earth's freezer to defrost, probably.
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It says here, I have to say "possibly,"but I'm going to say "probably."
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Or "almost certainly."
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Sorry, Tabitha, someone's got totell the truth around here,
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and these animals can't talk,so it's got to be me.
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The Arctic:
A Year in the Frozen Wilderness.
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Even though it's becoming unfrozen;
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except, it might not be.
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But, if it is, that may or may notbe due to human activity.
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Good lord, all these disclaimers,it's like doing an insurance advert.
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Hate those,
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but they do pay well.
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Sunrise in space.
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Of course, in space the sun doesn't rise.It's a trick of the earth.
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But down on earth--
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Hell's bells, the sky's on fire!
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Not really, and nothing much burns here.
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♪♪
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Winter is drawing to a close.
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The sun is risingfor the first time in nearly four months.
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Here it comes.
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Come on.
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At minus-five degrees,it's definitely full-body thermals for me,
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but it's positively balmy for her,
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which means it's time to cut loose.
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Wa
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You'd think, living in the Arctic,she'd get bored of sledging, but no,
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this polar bear'shaving a whale of a time.
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Which is a weird expression,because, if you ask me,
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whales always look rather bored.
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Oh, hello.
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Twins!
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At two months old,
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these cubs are gettingtheir first glimpse of the outside world.
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And it's white.Very white,
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like Berkshire.
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God, they're adorable aren't they?
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But don't try and give them a cuddle;
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their mum will rip your face offand snap your pelvis like a dead twig,
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then claw your heart outand spread your guts over the snow.
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I'll, I'll... I'll stop.
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I'll stop.
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It may look likethey're just mucking around,
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but this is serious preparationfor the next stage of their journey.
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Mother shows them what life has in store
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by repeatedly biting them on the bum.
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It's a metaphor;
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one minute, you're the second biggestnatural historian in the country,
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the next,you're doing adverts for funeral plans.
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But I don't complain.
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Her milk will soon run dry.
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So it's a slideto the frozen ocean to hunt,
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if global warming hasn'tturned the sea into a giant slush puppy.
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If global warming is a real thing.
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It's not just polar bearslooking for food.
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This fluff ball, the arctic fox,is also on the lookout for a meal,
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and there are no bins to go through here.
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She might look full of fun,but, actually, she's famished.
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You can see it in her eyes.Oh, what luck!
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She's inadvertently stumbled uponthe carcass of this reindeer...
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which the crew definitely didn'tleave here on purpose for her to find.
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Just to confirm, that did not happen.
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She may be hungry,but without gravy, spuds, and yorkshires,
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she's just not interested.
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So, this picky eatersets off in search of better food,
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warmer food.
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Oh, Tabby, speaking of warm food,
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any sign of my toasted panini?
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Hmm.
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This is what she is after.
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No, not the hare; too rabbity.
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Or the ptarmigan; too snowbally.
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Ah, perfect.
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Ox tongue.
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And oxtail.
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And ox.
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Look, basically, it's an ox.
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A muskox.
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250 kilos of angry cow.
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That fox has balls.
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Either that, or it is totally insane.
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This little chancerlooks as though she's set her sights
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on stealing a newborn calfright from under its mother's snout.
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Although, it says here in my notes
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that foxy might not be going forthe newborn at all.
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She might have set her sightson eating the placenta,
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but that's so new ageI'm going to ignore it.
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It's a moment of high drama.
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You can tell by the rapid bongos.
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Fox versus afterbirth;
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one of the great battlesof the natural world.
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Oh, it's all over.
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The muskox tells fox to foxtrot oscar.
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It's hardly a lionnoshing a wildebeest, is it?
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But it's truth;
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everything we show is truth,
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especially the dead reindeer.
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Spring heralds good news.
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With more daylight, it should be easierto get some bare necessities,
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but honey, fancy ants,pawpaws, and prickly pears
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are not widely availableon this patch of arctic sea ice.
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So, for this polar bear,that means ringed seal.
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A polar bear can sniff out a sealfrom more than 30 kilometres away,
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which might seem impressive,
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but there is nothing else about but snow,
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and, take it from me,seals absolutely honk.
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Ringed seals may besome of the smallest in the world,
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but these seals are crammed with calories.
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The bear, utterly focussed on the seal...
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much like a humanwho can think only of the toasted panini
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he was promised so very long ago.
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Is it nearly here?
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I hate to tell you,it's been nearly here for 25 minutes now.
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He treads lightlyto avoid alerting the seals to the fact
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that he, a 500-kilo chubster,is hoping to feast on them.
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Look at him tippy-toeing around.
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I've never seen a polar bearlook so positively dainty.
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He sniffs...
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he waits...
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dramatic pause.
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Should get a BAFTA for that line alone.
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He steadies himself to blast throughthe snow like a hairy claw-hammer.
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Oh...
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and that has done literally nothing.
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Well, the seal might just have heard that.
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There he is.
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No, he's at the other hole, you great nit.
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Huh! A fun gameof hide-and-seek for the seal,
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but the bear just can't keep up.
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Today the seal wins.
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Mr. Bear is a sad bear.
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He was really looking forwardto chewing the seal's neck clean off.
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He leaves,
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perhaps to stand on top of a mint.
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Now, this time lapse indicatesthat it's June in the Arctic.
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It's a nice visual wayof saying it's June,
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without me having to say it's now June,
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which I supposeI've now said three times.
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Anyway, it's June,
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and it's officiallyspringtime in the Arctic,
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or what passes asspringtime in the Arctic.
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The mercury reaches the giddy heights
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of zero degrees celsius.
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As it warms,giant cracks appear in the ice.
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The ocean becomes a jigsaw puzzle,where all pieces constantly change shape,
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and it's not even a goodidea to put them together.
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If ever you did, you wouldn't geta nice painting of a lancaster bomber,
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you'd just get some ice.
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Each of these gargantuan cracks
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creates a super highwayfor another species:
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narwhals;
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freakish, uni-horned creatures
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who travel thousands of kilometres
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in search of food.
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Narwhal...
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Narwhal... narwhal.
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You simply can't say "narwhal" enough.
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It's one of the bestwords in all natural history.
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Narwhal.
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Yes...
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The distinctive tusk is actuallya giant canine tooth
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sticking out through their lip.
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The tusk is purely ornamental,
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but thought to be a sexual display...
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like the Jag Alan down the road bought.
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It's tragic. Lost all his hair,
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not that you could tellfrom his Tinder profile.
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The narwhals havesophisticated echolocation,
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but today it has let them down.
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They've gone the wrong wayup a one-way ice flow.
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Things could get gnarly...
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or narwhaly.
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But it's a massive letdown,
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with one side meekly agreeingto back-up down the channel.
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All right, let's be honest,we were all hoping for violence.
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No, not you, Tabitha, I know,but the rest of us.
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Spring moves on,
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and at long lastthe polar bear has found a meal.
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What?
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Well, where's the footage of it?
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We've already wasted five minutes
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watching the blasted thingtrying to catch something.
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But Garth spent five months out there.What do you mean missed it?
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Ugh!
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With food in his belly,
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the male polar bear's thoughtsturn to finding a mate,
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which, if he's anywhere nearas bad at as he is finding food,
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it could take a while.Think about it.
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The object of his affections is white,
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he's white,
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everything is white.
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There's always the chance you'll spota potential mate on the horizon,
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but it will end up beinga rock covered in snow.
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And you can't matewith a rock covered in snow.
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It's cold and lifeless,and can't give you love,
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the love that you ache for.
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But this fellow has had a stroke of luck.
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He has picked up a scent,
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the smell of a female.
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Ah, the most wonderful smellyou can imagine...
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after play-doh, of course.
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He catches her upand saves a bit of energy
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by walking in thecompacted snow of her footprints.
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Er, how--
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how does he knowthat they're not his footprints?
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I mean, he could spend the next few hourswalking round and round in a circle.
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An Arctic Circle.
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Finally, he clamps eyes on her,
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and all the monthsof loneliness melt away.
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And, with a coy, over the shoulder glance,
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she signals it's time to go upstairs.
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Huh!
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He's known her for 40 secondsand he's ready to take things further.
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And she means upstairs.
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"Blooming heck," he thinks,"this coffee better be worth it."
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Looks like it is.
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I won't describethe act of bear love in more detail,
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as some thingsare best left to the poets.
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And once you find a mate,
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competition, like making love in the snow,
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can be painful.
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Female polar bearsare essentially polygamous.
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They're not like those couples-for-lifepenguins way down south,
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which leaves the malesfighting for their attention.
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Two proud malesbrawling in the name of sex.
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Is there a better sight?
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No, he's given up.
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Over the next few weeks,bloodier battles ensue.
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But our male managesto hold onto his lady love.
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It's been an emotional whirlwind.
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But now it's time for the male and female
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to go their separate ways;
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her to the joys of motherhood,
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him back to fightingand trying to kill things.
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Nature loves a gender stereotype.
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As summer finally arrives,the Arctic tundra is transformed
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from a pure white wasteland into this:
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a browny-green wasteland.This is no longerthe land of the polar bear.
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This is the land of the woolly bear,
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a sort of wandering eyebrow,
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and one of the first creaturesto emerge when the snow retreats.
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The woolly bear caterpillar spendsthe whole of this brief summer
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eating, eating, eating.
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It's a race to grabenough grub before winter arrives.
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And when it does,
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this little fellow has an amazingtrick up his sleeve to survive.
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Not that it has sleeves,it's a caterpillar.
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It crawls under a rock and freezes.
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Body, guts, blood, all frozen.
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Like an Arctic roll;
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spongy on the outside,solid on the inside,
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and lots better than a viennetta.
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"That's it for him," you may be thinking,
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but no,he survives to live another day.
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the next spring, it thawsand begins eating again.
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And it does thisfor an incredible 14 years.
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Or seven years,
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depending on whichscientific journal you read.
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Finally,it rises from the dead one last time,
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finds a spot, and weaves a cocoon.And emerges as a beautiful...
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plain brown moth.
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Well, its mother thinks it's beautiful.
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The biggest tragedy is that,after all that time,
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it flew straight into one of our lights.
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Poch!
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Yes, 14 years, Tabitha, hmm?
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-14 years.
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Feels that long since I ordered my panini.
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Yes...
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Like high season in any resort,
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summer in the Arcticbrings in the tourists.
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Around 18 million of them.
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Most are birds.
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Yeah, you've all turned upnow the sun's out haven't you
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Yeah, but where were youwhen it was 40-below,
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and we had to blowtorch Garth'stongue off the side of his ski
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There are some excellent divers,like these shearwaters.
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And then...
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there are guillemots.
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Safe to say, they weren't paying attention
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when mother nature gave her diving lesson.
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It may look suicidal,
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but these guillemotsare built for bouncing.
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It's remarkable.
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He's made it!
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And will go on to enjoy a happy life.Perhaps even one dayhaving chicks of his own.
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Ah...
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Or maybe not.
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Fortunately, summer is brief.
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And, as autumn arrives,so does the snow and ice.
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After her liaison with a male suitor,this female is now with cub.
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Or, as the experts put it, knocked up.
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She needs to dig a dento give birth in private.
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Apart from our cameras; they don't count.
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Yes, this is the Arctic,
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and momma bearhas to build her own labour ward
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in the most inhospitablehospital in the world.
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Well, there's no time to nap,you haven't finished yet.
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What are you doing?
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Oh! No, I remember.This is the clever bit.
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Keen to conserve energyfor the months ahead,
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she lies down,and lets the arctic winter finish the job,
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covering herself in a layer of snowuntil she disappears completely,
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which isn't hard;
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she's white, the snow is white,you know the drill by now.
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By november, it's full-onblue-balled, windswept winter.
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A convenient sunrise later,and it's already February.
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And to give us a happy ending,new life appears.
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And the pitter-patter of tiny pawscan't be heard,
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because of the snow,
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but they're there.
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Another generation
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to rough and tumble it outin this arctic wilderness.
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So, now we've come full circle;
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full Arctic Circle.
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We've witnessed the staggering ingenuity
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of those that livein this shrinking winter wonderland.
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And it is shrinking.
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Definitely. Not probably.
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The arctic is under threat,
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and it takes a brave personto point that out;
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a brave person who will one daybe recognised for taking a stand.
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No, I don't thinkI'm going over the top, Tabitha.
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This is my calling.
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The plight of the animal kingdom
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is what drives us filmmakersto live a nomadic existence,
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chasing thesetranscendent moments of beauty.
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The animal may go extinct...
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but our film will lastas long as humans have eyes.
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♪♪
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In preparation for filming
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in one of the mosthostile environments in the world,
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and bringing you these stunning images,
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the Round Planet teamneeded to familiarise themselves
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with the challenges of the landscape.
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The team were put through their pacesusing high-tech simulation equipment,
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replicating the blindnesscaused by whiteout conditions.
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The training was designedto prepare the crew
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for unexpected surprisesout on the tundra.
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♪♪
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Yet, despite the best possible equipment,
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nobody saw the polar bear approaching.
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So let's just saythat particular exercise is now...
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...under review.
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♪♪
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Ah, panini!
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Oh, I said without avocado. Oh...
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