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What s the best part of staying at a

hotel? If you’re a polar bear, it’s the

free breakfast!

When Malin Stark arrived one

morning to the Arctic hotel she manages,

she heard an odd rustling sound coming

from inside a storage room. Apparently a

polar bear had broken in the night

before and was trapped inside! The door

had closed while the bear was scarfing

down two bags of food scraps and some

dark chocolate. “It just did what bears

do—followed its nose,” polar bear

expert Tom Smith says.

Thinking quickly, Stark called the local

government for help. But the sound of

the rescue helicopter was enough to

convince the bear to free itself. So it

squeezed through a small window and

headed back to the wild. Guess this bear

won’t be ordering room service.

—Alli Dickey

Svalbard, Norway

What’s the best part of staying at a

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HELICOPTER

POLAR BEAR

“NO NEED TO

HELP, OFFICER!

I CAN GET OUT

OF HERE BY

MYSELF.”

“I WISH I’D

EATEN LESS

CHOCOLATE.”

“DON’T WORRY—

I’LL LEAVE A

GOOD HOTEL

REVIEW!”

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