National Geographic UK - 09.2019
The Polar 5 research plane, a modified turbine DC-3, is a key piece of equipment that visits the station three or four times a y ...
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BY Neil Shea PHOTOGRAPHS BY RONAN DONOVAN IN A 30-HOUR ENCOUNTER WITH A PACK OF ARCTIC WOLVES, OUR WRITER GAINED A NEW APPRECIAT ...
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A yearling male, known to our film crew as Gray Mane, walks ahead of a pack of arctic wolves in search of prey. This hunt lasted ...
A pup bites at a feather while another nuzzles the pack’s aging matriarch, White Scarf (far right). After the last known kill sh ...
The rest stood watching, heads cocked to the side. As though they were stunned by the rude- ness of it. Then, one by one, the wo ...
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A 12-week-old pup stretches in the September twilight after feeding on a fresh muskox carcass. Now big enough to travel, the pup ...
TOP RIGHT The pack, desperate for prey, scours Greely Fiord for muskoxen and arctic hares. When the fiord freezes in winter, the ...
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The wolves keep three male muskoxen in their sights. To kill one of these animals, which can weigh up to 650 pounds, the pack mu ...
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A young muskox fended off the wolves for 20 minutes before going down. As One Eye (far left) struggled to bite and hold the calf ...
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After a feeding, the pack rests and digests the meal. Wolves live a feast-or-famine lifestyle. Most hunts are unsuccessful, and ...
a heedless killer. My encounter with the Elles- mere wolves erased any lingering thoughts of dogs. The bright-eyed female had ex ...
At a certain point, I set up a tent a distance away to get a few hours of sleep. While I was off melting ice to make drinking wa ...
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