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Baby polar bear takes his first walk, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
If you haven’t seen this clip of a mother polar bear taking her new baby for baby’s first walk outside their den, you must. The spy-cam that caught it is amazing, as you’ll see, and the footage of Baby that Mama unwittingly helps the spy-cam capture will melt your heart.
Click the image above or below to see the clip, and be sure to watch all the way through. Baby enters at the very end.
Mother bear noses Snowball Cam, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
The clip comes from the one-hour BBC documentary “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice,” which isn’t available for viewing anywhere right now, sadly, but may air on Animal Planet in early March. Keep an eye out!
Snowball Cam in the snow, image from“Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
In the meantime, the clip above and four more below are available on Youtube, and they’re all a huge treat to watch — for the astonishing polar bear footage the spy-cams capture, the amazing and hilarious R2D2 type spy-cams the filmmakers used, and the utterly delightful narration by actor David Tennant. Check them out:
To watch a polar bear stage an amazing sneak attack on an unsuspecting seal, click below:
Polar bear stages sneak attack on seal, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
To watch three polar bears take a break from feeding on a kill to paw Snowball Cam, click below:
Polar bear paws Snowball Cam, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
To watch different polar bears destroy different spy-cams, trying to figure out what they are, click below:
Mother polar bear investigates floating Iceberg Cam as baby watches, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/ BBC One, youtube.com
And, finally, to watch a flirtatious female arouse a male’s interest with cheesecake poses and risqué gymnastics, click below:
Female polar bear tries to attract a male’s interest, image from “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”/BBC One, youtube.com
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