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polar bear in the bird cliff | 25 July 2013 |
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A bird cliff seems a safe nesting site. But I have seen spectacular climbs of polar foxes into the cliffs. And Arjen Drost observed even a polar bear looking for food.
At Alkefjellet on the east coast of Spitsbergen, he made these pictures after first observing the base-jump of cliff nesting barnacle geese. The stories about polar bears exploiting new food sources are highly relevant for this species adapting to or suffering from climate change. |  |
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