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Clockwise left to right: Red fox at the FNA Tundra Buggy Lodge
[credit: Shervin Hess, Oregon Zoo]; Polar bear dozing on the rocky shore
of Hudson Bay [credit: Cory Wilcox]; Cory Wilcox [credit: Shervin Hess]

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