Bear Witness: Street View Heads North for Polar Bears

Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific quest. Google Street View has long been in the business of capturing things other than streets, including, for example, the world's tallest mountains and Antarctica. These photo-mapping quests aren't always without incident -- there have been concerns about a dead donkey and some bent fenders -- but the polar bear mission seems to have gone well.