英语听力：自然百科 黄石公园的夏天 Yellowstone—2

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The heart of Yellowstone is a high cold plateau, 8,000 / feet up, surround by the spires¹ of the Rocky Mountains.   

 

After five months sleeping in those mountains, a powerful presence returns. 

 

This female grizzly² bear has awoken early to find food for her two-year-old cubs³. But she may have brought her family here too early.   

 

    The Tetons, on the extreme southern edge of the Yellowstone plateau, is where the spring thaw⁴ normally begins. But this year, it's come late.

 

Deep snow is still a novelty for her cubs, but she is much more focused. Let by her nose, she risks a 300-pound bulk on the thin ice of the bend in the Snake River.

 

    It doesn't look promising⁵, but her cubs follow with only a little hesitation⁶. With paws that can knock down an elk⁷, she feels delicately in the water, a fish frozen beneath the ice by this cold winter. 

 

One fish won't feed the family, but she knows there are almost certainly more. The cubs must learn to find them

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