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Fat polar bear swimming in Hudson Bay
A polar bear weighing around 950kg, the heaviest ever recorded, was spotted swimming towards Hudson Bay, Canada. As winters — the hunting period for polar bears — get shorter because of global warming, polar bears must fatten themselves up or perish in summer.
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