Increased pathogen exposure of a marine apex predator over three decades (IMAGE)

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Increased pathogen exposure of a marine apex predator over three decades

Caption

An adult female polar bear and her two cubs travel across the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean north of the Alaska coast.

Credit

Alaska Science Center, https://www.usgs.gov/, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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CC0

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