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Adorable polar bear cubs slide around after emerging from their den for 1st time in extremely rare footage

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Researchers have captured rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time.

The footage shows a mother polar bear plodding through the Arctic island's frozen landscape.

The scene is from one of 13 den sites on Svalbard that scientists have been monitoring for nearly a decade .

The study offers a glimpse at one of the most vulnerable and critical periods of a polar bear's life.