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We're back in the helicopter with polar bear researchers Nick Lund and Dave McGeechi, searching

for mother bears with cups.

It's for a little heavy that was all the big and David out for breakfast.

This is springtime over the huge frigid landscape.

Mother bears are waking up after eight months of fasting and heading out to the sea ice

of Hodson Bay.

We're just back in the air after finding the female bear without any cups.

It doesn't take long for Nick to spot something.

There's another bear.

Adding out another single.

Oh, I can't tell.

But it's another bear running.

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