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"ref": "1969, Jack Olsen, “Prologue”, in Night of the Grizzlies, Signet, published 1971, page 23:",
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"ref": "1975, Education for Development Quarterly, page 52:",
"text": "The anthology, suitable for the junior school library, Michael Bond’s Book of Bears, could well have been a feast for ursophiles but turns out to be only a good dinner.",
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"ref": "1977, Michigan in Books, page 15:",
"text": "The Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library, which has so many varieties, owns a copy, printed as part of a little seven-page pamphlet, Sir Bruin, issued in 1866, and ursophiles may read it there.",
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"ref": "1984, Publishers Weekly, volume 225, page 51, column 1:",
"text": "Bialosky is on the cover—to extend comfort and congratulations to ursophiles everywhere.",
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"ref": "1984, Time, volume 124, page 9:",
"text": "One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the ’86 edition.",
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"ref": "1986, Punch, volume 291, page 31, column 3:",
"text": "Which much loved and sadly missed English writer, actor and ursophile wrote a lovely book all about living in a small house on the same island?",
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"ref": "1993, Martha Hill, The Art of Photographing Nature, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "About six months later, Chuck Gibbs, another avid amateur photographer and ursophile, approached too close to a sow grizzly and her three cubs in Glacier National Park and was killed.",
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"ref": "1993, Canadian Geographic, page 6, column 1:",
"text": "These two new books are designed to stoke the insatiable appetite of ursophiles.",
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"ref": "1997, Book Review Digest, volume 93, page 1357:",
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"ref": "2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3:",
"text": "Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds.",
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"ref": "2008, James C. Halfpenny, Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species, Falcon Guides, →ISBN:",
"text": "To Diann, my alpha partner, ursophile, and tracking friend, for all her loving support and help.",
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"ref": "2009, Sylvia Dolson, “Test Your Voca-bear-lary!”, in Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia, PixyJack Press, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "This is a beary special quiz for ursophiles—all the answers contain the letters b-e-a-r.",
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},
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},
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},
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"ref": "2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3:",
"text": "Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds.",
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},
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"ref": "2008, James C. Halfpenny, Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species, Falcon Guides, →ISBN:",
"text": "To Diann, my alpha partner, ursophile, and tracking friend, for all her loving support and help.",
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},
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