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In summer several polar bears do not make it from their winter residence on the Svalbard islands to the dense drift ice and the pack ice of the high arctic where they find a plethora of preys. This is owing to the global climate change which leaves the ice around the islands melting much earlier than before. The bears need to switch from their genuine food to waste, small animals, bird eggs and cadavers of marine animals. Very often they are starving and doomed to die.

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A mother grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and her two-year-old cub catching fresh salmon from a river in Alaska, USA.

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