They are magnificent, captivating somehow, even magical.
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada calls itself, “the polar bear capital of the world.”
On a wind-blasted, icy tundra hundreds of polar bears come out of their summer-long torpor and head to shores of Hudson Bay waiting for the water to freeze over so they can go out on the ice to hunt seals.
But, sometimes a polar bear will come right into Churchill.
Wayward bears who wander into town get “arrested” captured and taken to “bear jail.”
After several days of incarceration, they’re taken out, tranquilized and blindfolded, in case they wake up too soon More
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