Controversy Surrounds Viral Polar Bear Video: Was It Climate Change?

Controversy Surrounds Viral Polar Bear Video: Was It Climate Change?
Polar bear Knut swims in his enclosure at the Tiergarten zoo in Berlin, October 19, 2010. Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
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A polar bear monitor, Leo Ikakhik, explained that a viral video of a starving polar bear may not be what it seems.

“I wasn’t totally surprised. These things happen,” he told the CBC. “Mother Nature is going to do part of that. You know, it’s just part of the cycle.”