Saturday, 31. August 2002

Polar Bear party?


Scientists can't explain why 40 to 50 bears have converged on area. Large numbers of polar bears have crowded into the Point Barrow area this month, and scientists are at a loss to explain exactly why. Bears were showing up regularly in town last week. And tour groups that visit the whale bone piles at Point Barrow, 12 miles north of town, were seeing 40 to 50 bears instead of the usual five or six.


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