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This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

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This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ice, we spotted ...