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"Can I give you some polar bear advice?" asks Tee, a confident 13-year-old we meet during a visit to a high school in Churchill, Canada.
"If there's a bear this close to you," she says as she measures a distance of about 30cm with her hands, "make a fist - and punch it in the nose.
"Polar bears have very sensitive noses - it'll just run away."
Tee has not had to put this advice to the test. But growing up here - alongside the planet's largest land predator - means bear safety is part of everyday life.
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