Images Dated 21st October 2012

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) juvenile spreading body weight over thin newly forming pack ice

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) juvenile spreading body weight over thin newly forming pack ice, trying not to break through, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope, Alaska

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