The overall effect is a bear torn between the unique dangers and caloric payloads that humans provide—they are more sleep-deprived, more anxious, more desperate, and more twitchy than the bear that nature produced. Though modern-day humans and conservationists pay well-intended lip service to the idea that they are restoring the woodlands’ most magnificent ambassador to its rightful arboreal throne, in truth they are more like Dr. Victor Frankenstein—stitching together the elements of life they have at hand in the hope that the resultant creation will serve the needs of humanity, rather than
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