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In the US, polar bears are classified as a threatened species; scientists say the biggest threat to their future is the continuing loss of sea ice habitat, which they depend on as a platform from which to pounce on their marine prey.

UCLA’s defense could be set to pounce on a Rutgers offense that has generated just seven points during each of its back-to-back losses to Nebraska and Wisconsin.

At one point in the game I was receiving multiple texts in rapid succession, my location compromised and a potentially villainous agency about to pounce on me.

Pope continued to pounce on any width, peppering the point boundary, while also pulling two sixes.

When a more youthful vice president finally took cultural primacy over her older, quieter, much more publicity-shy superior, younger generations were even more primed to pounce on that moment.