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Swimming Polar Bear, Canada, 1998

"In its element swimming among ice floes near Hudson Bay, a polar bear lives up to its scientific name: Ursus maritimus, sea bear."

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

Photograph by Flip Nicklin

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