The episode explores how animals become cultural symbols in America, tracing a pattern from the teddy bear’s origin in Theodore Roosevelt’s compassion to the failed attempt to make the billy possum a presidential mascot and the polar bear’s rise and fall as a climate change icon. It revea
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