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Google Maps Now Gives You Directions to Polar Bears

27
Feb
2014

Google has taken their Street View cameras to some pretty far-off places, but on Thursday, they added one really far-off one: Manitoba, Canada, the natural home of one of the biggest polar bear populations in the world. The Google team spent two months collecting images of polar bears using a Tundra Buggy, which seems to be the vehicle used for the arctic equivalent of a safari wildlife tour. The result is no David Attenborough documentary, but its probably the closest available equivalent youll get to strolling around the home of the elusive animals:  The project expands upon Bear Tracker, the Google Maps-based polar bear watching project run by Polar Bears International. As Google explained on its blog post announcing the polar bear views, it serves a double purpose.

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