        National Geographic Photo of the Day: Caribou on Tundra

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Alaska, 1969 Photograph by George F. Mobley Caribou graze on tundra,
tinted orange by the sun, somewhere between Nome and Teller on western
Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Caribou share this remote, sub-Arctic
expanse with musk oxen, moose, and grizzly bears, among other hearty
creatures.

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