英语听力：自然百科 秋日黄石公园 Autumn—5

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A grizzly¹ bear mother and cubs².

 

It's unusual for a grizzly to have so many cubs. This mother has found two orphans³, and adopted them. But now she has four cubs to fatten⁴ up before they go into the den⁵ to hibernate⁶ this winter. She is after / pine nuts too, they are 50% fat.

 

In a good year, a grizzly bear can put on 5 pounds a day, eating nuts alone.

 

If squirrels have done the hard work, it doesn't matter that grizzlies⁷ can't climb trees. The squirrel will just have to start again. Luckily this year the trees are being particularly generous.

 

A Clark’s Nutcracker, this is what the tree/ has been waiting for. With its perfectly⁸ shaped beak⁹, it prizes the nuts from the cones¹⁰ and tucks them one by one into a special pouch¹¹ under its tongue.

 

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