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A READER asked me the other day what had first got me interested in nature, animals and the environment.
It took a bit of thought but the memory I kept coming back to was of a baby polar bear (Ursus maritimus) called Brumas.
I was just a toddler when the little bear was born at London Zoo in 1949.
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