Polar Bear Metabolism Less Resilient to Summer Ice Melt Than Expected (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Polar Bear Metabolism Less Resilient to Summer Ice Melt Than Expected (3 of 5)

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University of Wyoming researchers John Whiteman and Merav Ben-David inspect a temperature logger implantation site on a polar bear on off-shore sea ice north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in April 2009. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 17, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by John Whiteman at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo., and colleagues was titled, "Summer declines in activity and body temperature offer polar bears limited energy savings."

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