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100 1  Williams, Kale,|eauthor. 
245 14 The loneliest polar bear :|ba true story of survival and 
       peril on the edge of a warming world /|cKale Williams. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2021] 
300    274 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-263) and 
       index. 
520    "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. Sweeping and tender, 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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Polar bear|zOhio|vBiography. 
650  0 Polar bear|xInfancy. 
650  0 Human-animal relationships. 
650  0 Zoos|zOhio|zPowell.