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a grizzly bear covered in ice
January 17, 2014

Winter Layers

Having gorged on salmon to lay on fat for hibernation, a grizzly wears a coat of ice in Canada's Yukon.

See more pictures from the February 2014 feature story “Yukon: Canada’s Wild West.”


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Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic

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