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PHOTO OF THE DAY August 4, 2003  

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Where Arctic Ocean around the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway
When 1996
Photographer Flip Nicklin

Bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus), such as this mother and her baby, can identify each other by sniffing.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Bearded Seals," March 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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