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The Incredible Shrinking Polar Bear
I have long known about the fate of the noble Polar Bear. I learned years ago that the polar ice cap is shrinking, that the annual ice floes do not last as long as they used to and as a result, polar bears can not feed long enough. They are getting thinner and female bears cannot sustain enough fat to bear (excuse the pun) as many cubs as they used to - three became, two and two has become one.
I have been know, for years, to refer to SUVs as "polar bear killers".
Vocabulary and Phrases
turning to cannibalism
to draw up an action plan
to subsist
to congregate
to recede
a vital fattening-up time
to see them through
a long summer fast
chair (a person and a verb)
delegates
desperation
deliberately
denning (den - noun, to den - verb, denning)
over-optimistic
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