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Hey Shore Waivers, Regina Barbara here with Science Queen and producer Burley

Hey Burley. Hey Gina. So I hear we're going to talk about Grizzlies and this is an

animal that people have let's just say strong feelings about.

They do.

To a lot of people, they're what scientists call

charismatic megafauna, which basically means a big animal

lots of people love.

People imagine grlies to be this giant soft teddy bear rolling around in pristine streams with mountains and

wildflowers in the background. I mean, yeah, I mean there is the fat bear week, but honestly they really scare me.

And same, and same.

Grizzlies are super dangerous, and we do have a lot of them up in my neck of the woods

around Glacier National Park in northwest Montana

because they've rebounded from a pretty critical low point

decades ago when they were reduced to less than 2%

of their historic range.

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