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  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 1/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 3/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 2/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 4/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 6/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 7/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 5/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 9/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 8/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 11/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 10/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 13/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 12/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 14/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 16/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
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    FEATURE - Ein Nilpferd und ein Krokodil streiten sich um ein Zebra
    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) fighting over zebra carcass with Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Mara river, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 15/16
    The photographer, Vincent Gesser wrote the following:

    A large wildebeest crossing had taken place an hour before further up the river and the zebra had been a casualty. When its carcass eventually drifted down the Mara river, the hippo spotted it and, surprisingly for an herbivore, caught it and started to try to eat it. The crocodile knew that the hippo would not be able to eat it and after a few minutes observing, it decided to take the carcass from the hippo.

    This is the moment the pictures were taken, with the very unhappy hippo making grunting noises. Eventually the croc managed to get most of the dead zebra and swam down river with it, and the hippo was left with some zebra meat stuck between its teeth, unable to remove it.
    (FOTO: DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT)

    (c) Dukas

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

  • Grizzly Bears
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    Grizzly Bears
    05NOV2012 ALASKA: A fight broke out between the two brown bears after one tried to swipe a salmon the other had caught for its lunch in Katmai National Park, Alaska
    Japanese photographer Shogo Asao, 60, stumbled across the violent scene while making his way to a waterfall in the national park
    Mr Asao said the two grizzlies towered at around 8ft tall when they stood on their hind legs to do battle




    DUKAS/PHOTOSHOT

     

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    Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Michael S. Nolan / SplashdownDirect (1192532a)
    Mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) with two coy (cubs-of-year) on multi-year ice floes in the Barents Sea off the eastern side of Heleysundet in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. An adult male weighs around 400?680 kg (880?1,500 lb) while an adult female is about half that size. The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food. The IUCN states, If climatic trends continue polar bears may become extirpated from most of their range within 100 years. On May 14, 2008, the United States Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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    (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • VARIOUS
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    VARIOUS
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Michael S. Nolan / SplashdownDirect (1192889a)
    Mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) with two coy (cubs-of-year) on multi-year ice floes in the Barents Sea off the eastern side of Heleysundet in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. An adult male weighs around 400?680 kg (880?1,500 lb) while an adult female is about half that size. The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food. The IUCN states, If climatic trends continue polar bears may become extirpated from most of their range within 100 years. On May 14, 2008, the United States Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
    VARIOUS

    (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)

    DUKAS/REX

     

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    VARIOUS
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Michael S. Nolan / SplashdownDirect (1192923a)
    Mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) with two coy (cubs-of-year) on multi-year ice floes in the Barents Sea off the eastern side of Heleysundet in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. An adult male weighs around 400?680 kg (880?1,500 lb) while an adult female is about half that size. The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food. The IUCN states, If climatic trends continue polar bears may become extirpated from most of their range within 100 years. On May 14, 2008, the United States Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
    VARIOUS

    (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)

    DUKAS/REX