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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 22, 2004  

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Where Hudson Bay, Canada
When 1996
Photographer Flip Nicklin

Alert but probably unperturbed, a polar bear stares down the camera. Thousands of ecotourists come to the Hudson Bay area to glimpse the bears, and the bears in turn have habituated to the human presence.

(Text adapted from "Polar Bears, Stalkers of the High Arctic," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Polar Bears, Stalkers of the High Arctic," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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