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Williams, Kale (Reporter).
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Nora (Polar bear)
Polar bear -- Ohio -- Biography.
Polar bear -- Infancy.
Human-animal relationships.
Zoos -- Ohio -- Powell (Delaware County).
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Williams, Kale (Reporter).
Nora (Polar bear)
Polar bear -- Ohio -- Biography.
Polar bear -- Infancy.
Human-animal relationships.
Zoos -- Ohio -- Powell (Delaware County).
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The loneliest
Polar
bear
: a true story of survival and peril on the edge of a warming world / Kale Williams.
by
Williams, Kale (Reporter).
Crown, 2021.
Call #:
599.78609771 W724L
Subjects
Nora
(
Polar
bear
)
Polar
bear
-- Ohio -- Biography.
Polar
bear
-- Infancy.
Human-animal relationships.
Zoos -- Ohio -- Powell (Delaware County).
ISBN:
9781984826336 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Abandoned -- A fateful hunt -- First feeding -- The
bear
-- Signs of trouble -- When death came by dogsled -- Milestones -- Farewell -- Tasul -- Adaptation -- Arrival -- Sinking into the sea -- Alone again -- The last skin boat -- Another hurdle -- On the edge of a warming world -- Home, for now -- Broken -- A risky repair --
Nora
's keepers.
Summary:
"The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned
polar
bear
cub named
Nora
and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a
polar
bear
named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn't returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called
Nora
. Humans rarely get as close to a
polar
bear
as
Nora
's keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before
Nora
's birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the
polar
bears -- and everyone and everything else living in the far north -- are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. The Loneliest
Polar
Bear
explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of
polar
bears is not theirs alone."--From publisher.
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