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  • Swimming elephants use their trunks as built-in snorkels.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Two young males meet for a sparing match.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Young males sparing.  Notice the “finger like” appendages on the tip of the trunk of the one on the right.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • The sparing game goes on.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Young males test each other often.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • As one herd heads to shore, young males come to greet them.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  • Have you ever tried running in four feet of water?  Brown bears are very good at it.  Photo DSC_6760
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  • Eye contact during a special moment.  DSC_6573
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  • Brown bears are very graceful swimmers.  Photo DSC_0433
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  • Big paws.  Photo DSC_6915
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  • The water is very clear, and the bears are able to see fish on the bottom of the river.  Photo DSC_6918
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  • This bear swam by us looking for fish.  Photo DSC_7318
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  • The clarity of the water added to the beauty of the moment.  Photo DSC_7203
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  • At low tide Brown bears will fish for flat fish in the tidal basins.  When the tide comes in, the bears switch to salmon in the river.   Photo DSC_0860
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  • In the Southern Beaufort Sea, “sea ice forms along the shore and then retreats, especially in summer. As the sea ice retreats farther and farther from shore in a warming Arctic, these polar bears are faced with a choice of coming ashore—and fasting until the ice returns in the fall—or swimming long, exhausting distances to reach the remaining pack ice.  However, because ice located far offshore lies over less productive waters, bears in these areas may successfully complete a marathon swim yet still not find any seals to hunt.” – Polar Bears International.
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  • A sow and her cubs are getting ready to go up on the beach.  They have just finished swimming across a bay that was freezing up.
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  • When swimming through the slush, the bears will go under water.  When they come up, their heads are covered with ice.
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  • Polar bears are excellent swimmers, and recent studies document that polar bears regularly swim over thirty miles.  But as sea ice recedes, the necessity for longer swims will increase.  Long swims require more energy expenditure.  And this happens at a time when it is more difficult to find food.
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  • Watching polar bears swim through icy water I could not help but think that they are in their preferred environment.
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  • More body surfing.  Why swim if you can let the waves do the work for you?  Photo DSC_5112
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  • These two Gentoos are coming in from a swim.  The way they hold their wings out makes me smile.  It is as if they are announcing their arrival.  Photo DSC_5080
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  • As polar bears swim, their paws often come above the surface of the water.  In this photo, you can get a sense of the size of a polar bear paw.
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  • I have found Gentoo penguins to be the most enjoyable to watch swim.  They are the fastest swimmers of all the penguin species, and they seem to be the most acrobatic.  Photo DSC_5067
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  • Polar bears that live in the Southern Beaufort Sea, which includes those around Barter Island, are at great risk from longer and longer swims, prolonged fasting periods, and encounters with humans on shore.
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