Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
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Image id: 1350-286
Release status: No Release Needed
Shot date: August 2008
Upload date: June 2021
Artist: Dennis Fast
Release status: No Release Needed
Shot date: August 2008
Upload date: June 2021
Artist: Dennis Fast
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