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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 1, 2003  

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Where Wager Bay, Canada
When 1996
Photographer Flip Nicklin

“In July a bear shakes off after a swim in Canada's Wager Bay, a finger of Hudson Bay. Here and elsewhere in the bears' southern range, sea ice melts in summer. Without ice for a platform they cannot hunt seals, their main prey—and so they fast, eating almost nothing until ice forms in autumn.”

—From “Polar Bears: Stalkers of the High Arctic,” January 1998, National Geographic magazine

Creature Feature—Polar Bears (Photos, Facts, E-mail Postcard, More)
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