Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
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Crossing into ancient Alaska
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migrating herds find new forage
and sheltering valleys

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but they're followed from Asia
by fierce carnivore...

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saber-toothed cats, giant bears
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and the greatest
of all predators.

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They arrive
in small bands from Siberia

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pressing east in pursuit of game
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unaware they're discovering
a continent.

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The hunters are sustained
by bison, moose, woolly mammoth

:04:00
and the wild reindeer
called caribou.

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Where frozen tundra
limits vegetation, meat is life.

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Most of the year,
it is kill or starve.

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The hunters prosper here
across millennia

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but as the receding lce Age
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opens the wall of glaciers
to the south

:04:59
most move on with the herds

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