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Article: Little Polar Bears/The World of the Polar Bear
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- Natural History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Little Polar Bears, by Thorsten Milse (Bucher; $45.00)
The World of the Polar Bear, by Norbert Rosing (Firefly Books; $45.00)
It's ironic that the word "cuddly" seems so apt in describing Earth's largest land predator, yet that's the impression one gets from these two magnificent picture books. Both show polar bear mothers and cubs sleeping together, moms caressing their young, and cubs playfully roughhousing in the snow. In one idyllic scene, the German nature photographer Thorsten Milse has captured a diminutive cub hitching a ride on its mother's back, while two siblings tussle nearby. In another, Milse's compatriot Norbert Rosing has caught a fox tugging fearlessly at the hind leg of a ...